Word: bohnen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent, and Francis Farmer as his embittered Sweetheart gives a fine performance though she lacks dramatic finesse at times. Perhaps the best performance is presented by Morris Carnowsky as the fighter's father. Sanford Meisner is perfect as the gangster manager, and high honors are also due to Roman Bohnen as Miss farmer's elderly lover. Art Smith as the trainer, and John O'Malley as the fighter's brother...
Odets' characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent...
...Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
...Michael Bohnen, famous baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, portrays the role of the great composer. He is supported by Gretl Theimer, who first captured the hearts of American audiences as the heroine of "Zwei Herzen in 3-4 Takt," Lee Parry, Paul Hoerbringer and others. The melodic Strauss music, fine settings and striking photography, make "Wiener Blut" one of the conspicuously good German films...