Word: liliom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl who phoned Don Ameche that day in 1931 was Bernadine Flynn, Don Ameche's co-star at Wisconsin. She, too, had found her was to Broadway. She carried letters of recommendation from Zona Gile, Wisconsin novelist and playwright, who had seen her with Don in Liliom...
...Liliom (Erich Pommer). This adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's famed play, with French dialog and English subtitles, is notable for two reasons. Its director was Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis). Its star is Charles Boyer, who, after a comparatively inconsequential sojourn in Hollywood, returned to France a year ago and promptly became its leading matinee idol...
...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...
...reopening of her famed dramatic workshop, closed all last year. Anything the Repertory company might have put on for its début would have excited cheers from its devoted following. The audience was still howling gratefully long after the critics had left to write their praiseful reviews of Liliom, in which Miss Le Gallienne and Joseph Schildkraut revived the parts which made them and the Theatre Guild famous...
...settings were not by Lee Simonson, the carousel tune was different and portly Dudley Digges was not Liliom's evil friend "Sparrow." Otherwise, the Repertory's Molnar revival was moment for moment the play of eleven years back. Actor Schildkraut, strutting, slapping the girls, blowing his nose with his hand, interprets the character of a sideshow barker who has nothing to be admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives...