Word: gynt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emmanuel (Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla; TIME...
...extremely well played, it is one of the most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops over the role. Norway-born Greta Gynt, as the cabaret singer, is so crashingly carnal in her first U.S. appearance that Hollywood seems, for her, an inevitable...
...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...
Charwomen and Queens. Peer Gynt's social glitter was in sharp contrast to the audiences the Old Vic had been used to -the long-haired, sandaled Bohemians, the cockneys, charwomen and ancients in Inverness capes who sat raptly on hard wooden benches and glared at anyone who even shuffled his feet. But in far-off days the old theater had known glitter...
Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...