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...entrepreneurs of the first generation were native born, they were soon replaced by a bazaar of movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer...
...diaspora scattered again, finding refuge back home in European co-productions. Hollywood was retreating into familiar genres: into the memorial expanses of westerns like High Noon (directed by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann) or the paranoid apocalypse of science-fiction films like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers of London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium...
...bass James Morris served notice that he will be a Teutonic god of vocal power and majesty for years to come. Proud, haughty and resolutely amoral, Morris dominated the drama as he must to give depth to the tragedy that is, ultimately, Wotan's doing. Equally impressive was the Hungarian-born soprano Eva Marton, a legitimate contender for the mantle of Birgit Nilsson with impassioned performances of Brunnhilde in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Awakened by Siegfried on the Valkyrie rock, Marton sang Brunnhilde's Heil dir, Sonne greeting to life in gleaming, radiant tones, and her blazing immolation scene ignited...
Liszt tapped another fervid source of the legend in two episodes of Faust by the mad Hungarian poet Nikolaus Lenau, who wrote his own treatment of the demoniac tale. Nocturnal Procession, a stately, spooky march of Gregorian- chanting penitents, is one of the composer's most original and beautiful creations. The Dance in the Village Inn, better known as the First Mephisto Waltz, sweeps forward with a cloven-hoofed fiddler calling the tune...
...Paris of Kertesz's early career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...