Word: czinner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like It (Paul Czinner) exhibits Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind in the third play by William Shakespeare offered to cinema audiences within the last year. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Max Reinhardt's cinema debut, and Romeo and Juliet, the late Irving Thalberg's masterpiece, had at least one thing in common: neither one has broken records for receipts. The critical acclaim which As You Like It received in London last summer and will receive in the U. S. this winter is not likely to save it from the same fate. Box-office appeal...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...
...though it is a definite improvement on the wooden play written under the same title by Margaret Kennedy as a sequel to The Constant Nymph and performed by Elisabeth Bergner in London and Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 28). Escape Me Never is a cinematic mediocrity, which not even Director Paul Czinner's artful concentration on his wife's talents can turn into more than an extensive inventory of them. Good shot: Gemma helping her husband try to comfort her for small Tommy's death by laughing at his promises to behave better in the future...
...first glimpse she had of herself in cinema caused Actress Bergner to forswear it. She took it up again because, improvident, she wished to make some money for a sick friend. Appearing in Nju, she married the director, Dr. Paul Czinner who has since done all her pictures. Actress Bergner likes Schnitzler, wiener schnitzel, skating, odd-looking clothes. She dislikes women who smoke, smokes incessantly herself...