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  Elisabeth Bergner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisabeth Bergner was born Elisabeth Ettel on August 22, 1897, in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drogobych, Ukraine).
With the rise of Naziism, Bergner and her husband, Paul Czinner, both Jews, moved to London.
She died in London, England on May 12, 1986, at the age of 88.
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 Guardian | Elisabeth Furse
Elisabeth Furse, who has died aged 92 - with mind, teeth and fearless spirit pretty well intact - was a second world war heroine and a lifelong defier of convention.
Here, she fell for the bisexual actor Elisabeth Bergner, in whose dressing-room she once asked the visiting Marlene Dietrich, "What is marriage like?" "I lie on my back, and count the flies on the ceiling," was the languid reply.
Elisabeth refused, saying that equality ruled in the Bistro, and she was its only madam.
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 As You Like It (1936 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the final film of stage actors Leon Quartermaine and Henry Ainley, and featured an early screen role for Ainley's son Richard as Sylvius, and for John Laurie, who played Orlando's brother Oliver.
Bergner had previously played the role of Rosalind in her native Germany and her German accent is apparent in most of her scenes.
Frederick allows the exiled Duke's daughter, Rosalind (Elisabeth Bergner), however, to stay, as she is the closest friend of his daughter, Celia (Sophie Stewart).
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 Geiger von Florenz, Der (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elisabeth Bergner is probably best remembered (in Britain, at least) for playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It', a role which she spent most of her screen time cross-dressed as Ganymede, the counterfeit boy.
Bergner spends most of this film in male disguise, yet the attempts to transform her into a 'boy' are so perfunctory as to be downright laughable.
I suspect that Czinner was unwilling to compromise Bergner's substantial female charms, and reluctant to present her to audiences as anything less than 100% feminine.
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 As You Like it : DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born in the Ukraine, and having first appeared in the Berlin silent film "Der Evangelimann" in 1923, Elisabeth Bergner acts like a silent actress, and "As You Like It" appears to be her first English-speaking role.
Elisabeth Bergner´s performance is affected and histrionic but an interesting dynamic develops (whether intentionally or unintentionally) between her Ganymede and Olivier´s Orlando.
Elisabeth Bergner stars as Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled Duke, who falls in love with Orlando (Olivier), the son of one of her father´s courtiers.
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 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bergner is suddenly entrapped in one court intrigue after another while Robson, as the shrewd, ugly, and lustful dowager Empress Elizabeth, manipulates her, shaping her destiny.
At her death, Robson confides to Bergner that her nephew is mad and she fears for his life and that of Russia.
Bergner is hailed as the new empress, Catherine the Great, and goes gloriously to her throne and legend.
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 German 43: Resources: Biographies: Bergner, Elisabeth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elisabeth Bergner got her start by acting in Max Reinhardt's productions in 1923.
Bergner was particularly (in)famous for her portrayals of tomboys and cross-dressers in such features as Der Geiger von Florenz (1926) and Dona Juana (1927).
But just as she was about to reach the apex of her career (with 1931's Ariane and 1932's Der träumende Mund), she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 because of her Jewish heritage.
www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/bergner-e.html   (164 words)

  
 Elisabeth Bergner Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Considered one of the finest actresses of her generation, this blonde performer entered films in Germany in 1923 but her career was cut short by the rise to power of the Nazis.
In 1933, Bergner and her husband, the Czech director Paul Czinner, fled to Britain where she continued to alternate between stage and screen.
In the United Kingdom, Bergner landed her first English-language production, the title role in the biopic "Catherine the Great" (1934), although it was banned in Nazi Germany for featuring "emigre Jews", cutting into its box office potential.
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 Escape Me Never - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film was edited by David Lean, and the cinematography was by Freddie Young, with music composed by William Walton.
It starred Elisabeth Bergner (as Gemma Jones), Penelope Dudley-Ward (as Fenella McClean), Rosalinde Fuller (as Teremtcherva), Lyn Harding (as Prof.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Elisabeth Bergner).
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 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
Top billing, however, went to Elisabeth Bergner, a popular Austrian actress at the time; it should be noted that the director, Paul Czinner, was also her husband!
Bergner actually recommended Olivier for the part after seeing him in the 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet, put on by his friend and colleague John Gielgud.
Bergner reportedly declared to Czinner, "That is the man I want as my partner." Olivier was not sure about taking the role; his pal Gielgud was opposed to the idea of filming Shakespeare.
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 Bergner, Elisabeth (1897-1986)
Elisabeth Bergner made her debut in Innsbruck in 1915.
Bergner and Skinner were both Jews and after the Nazi's came to power they emigrated to Vienna and then London, where they were married.
The memorial plaque for Elisabeth Bergner at Golders Green Crematorium, London.
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p013553.htm   (404 words)

  
 CRITICS' CHOICES; TV - New York Times
Elisabeth Bergner, the German-born actress, makes a memorable Empress of Russia in the British biographical drama, ''Catherine the Great'' (1934) - Monday at 9 P.M. Look to the stars in choosing films on both cable and broadcast TV this week.
Elisabeth Bergner, the German-born actress, makes a memorable Empress of Russia in the British biographical drama, ''Catherine the Great'' (1934) - Monday at 9 P.M. and 1 A.M. on Arts & Entertainment.
Deborah Kerr, as a prep-school teacher's wife dominates ''Tea and Sympathy'' (1956) with a luminous performance, sharing the focus with John Kerr, as the tormented student.
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 Portrait of the actress Elisabeth Bergner by Thomas Staedeli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Portrait of the actress Elisabeth Bergner by Thomas Staedeli
The actress Elisabeth Bergner was born as Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz.
Already at the age of fourteen she studied at a private acting school and one year later she attended the Viennese conservatory.
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 Amazon.com: Catherine the Great (B&W): Video: Paul Czinner,Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,Elisabeth Bergner,Flora Robson,Gerald ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
as Grand Duke Peter, Elisabeth Bergner as Catherine, Flora Robson as Empress Elisabeth, Gerald du Maurier as Lecocq, Irene Vanbrugh as Princess Anhalt-Zerbst, Joan Gardner as Katushienka, Dorothy Hale as Countess Olga, Diana Napier as Countess Vorontzova, Griffith Jones as Grigory Orlov, Gibb McLaughlin as Bestujhev, Clifford Heatherley as Ogarev, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Grand Duke Peter, Elisabeth Bergner as Catherine, Flora Robson as Empress Elisabeth, Gerald du Maurier as Lecocq, Irene Vanbrugh as Princess Anhalt-Zerbst, Joan Gardner as Katushienka, Dorothy Hale as Countess Olga, Diana Napier as Countess Vorontzova, Griffith Jones as Grigory Orlov, Gibb McLaughlin as Bestujhev...
At first, Catherine, a German princess intent only upon marrying the Grand Duke Peter, the man to whom she has been promised since she was ten, seems to be a humble, simple soul.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303934609?v=glance   (768 words)

  
 TIME.com: New Play in Manhattan -- Aug. 16, 1943 -- Page 1
For quite a while, people drink tea and drone on about Beauty in an atmosphere more amorous than ominous; then the wife turns weak and wan — though not from knowing that her husband is hitting it up with a young widow two villas away.
Carroll to explain to the second why she is weak in the knees: Painter Jory is slowly poisoning her so he can marry the widow.
Actress Bergner is by turns gay, childlike, passionate, pathetic, bewildered, frightened and frantic; and though at moments a little hard to believe, she is always exciting to watch.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,933206,00.html   (420 words)

  
 TIME.com: -- Jun. 3, 1935 -- Page 1
Purposely designed to exhibit her extraordinary versatility, it becomes a sort of steeplechase of the emotions in which, as Gemma, a strangely sophisticated yet completely unworldly waif married to a pompous, self-centred young musical genius, Actress Bergner is called upon to take more spiritual hurdles than occur in any normal lifetime.
If this is true, Miss Bergner's performance in Escape Me Never goes far to justify the encomiums of critics who, after Catherine the Great, called her a cinematic Duse.
In other respects, 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).
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,883424,00.html   (726 words)

  
 all about eve
A young actress who named herself Martina Lawrence (after a character played on stage by Bergner) stood outside the stage door for months wearing a red coat.
When it came time to do a reading, she did the reading and even Bergner's husband, Paul Czinner, said she was remarkable.
In her memoirs, Bergner says, 'Three weeks later [after talking to Orr], I was at the hairdresser and someone gave me a copy of this Hearst magazine, and there was the whole story I told Mary Orr.'” –The New York Times, 10/1/2000
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - Escape Me Never
Elisabeth Bergner won an Oscar nomination for best actress for her portrayal of an unwed mother who marries a man who doesn't love her.
Sebastian marries pal Gemma (Bergner) out of pity, but then ignores her--not even acknowledging her ill baby.
Elisabeth Bergner, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Rosalinde Fuller, Lyn Harding, Griffith Jones, Leon Quartermaine, Hugh Sinclair, Irene Vanbrugh
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=62001-1-PST   (141 words)

  
 No. 5: All About Eve - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East, Movie Scripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The original short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr, appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1946, and was produced as a radio drama for NBC.
The short story was based on a true incident Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner (often called the "Garbo of the stage") told Orr about the 1943 Broadway production of The Two Mrs.
In her memoirs, Bergner says, 'Three weeks later [after talking to Orr], I was at the hairdresser and someone gave me a copy of this Hearst magazine, and there was the whole story I told Mary Orr.'" -- The New York Times, 10/1/2000
www.wgaeast.org /greatest_screenplays/2006/04/04/all_about_eve   (569 words)

  
 Cry of the Banshee (1970) - Channel 4 Film review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The credits at all levels of this horror movie promise more than is delivered.
Bergner, returning to the screen after eight years, plays head girl of a witch's coven in 16th-century England.
She decides to take revenge on a notorious magistrate (Price) and sends a young guy (Mower) to destroy him.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102463   (148 words)

  
 Search - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Last week was an emotional rollercoaster for Elisabeth Hasse...
Elisabeth Shue will play Jim Carrey's wife in The Number 23,...
Question: What are your thoughts on the new round of cast ch...
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 DVDFILE.COM: As You Like It review
That woman, Rosalind (Elisabeth Bergner), is the daughter of Duke Senior, who was exiled by his younger brother Frederick.
Olivier does not even receive top billing (that honor went to the then more famous Elisabeth Bergner, who also happened to be married to the director).
Obviously Olivier made rapid progress with his acting skills, as Wuthering Heights was just three years away.
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 San Francisco Film Society
Meanwhile, in the urban jungle of the city of seven hills, the 12th San Francisco International Film Festival hosted an unprecedented parade of Old Hollywood aristocracy, with Lillian Gish, Bing Crosby, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, John Huston, Jack Valenti and Budd Boetticher.
Throw in Barbra Streisand, Elliott Gould, Rod Steiger and Elisabeth Bergner for good measure.
Columnist Herb Caen wrote that Opening Night looked like a rerun of the Academy Awards of 1937, and he didn’t mean it as a compliment.
www.sffs.org /levin/greatmoments/huston.html   (788 words)

  
 Elisabeth Bergner, Das Leben einer Schauspielerin ; Ganz und doch immer unvollendet - VÖLKER, KLAUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elisabeth Bergner, Das Leben einer Schauspielerin ; Ganz und doch immer unvollendet - VÖLKER, KLAUS
VÖLKER, KLAUS Elisabeth Bergner, Das Leben einer Schauspielerin ; Ganz und doch immer unvollendet
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 A Brief Reign of Terror | PopMatters Film Feature
The Druids' leader, Oona (Elisabeth Bernger), survives and places a curse upon Whitman and his family.
Her revenge is personified by a figure known as a "sidhee." The creature takes the form of Roderick (Patrick Mower), a servant to Whitman and furtive lover of his daughter, Maureen (Hilary Dwyer).
The scenes in which women are tortured seem uncomfortably exploitative, included as a reason to disrobe the actresses.
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 1935 Academy Awards® Winners and History
VICTOR MCLAGLEN in "The Informer", Clark Gable in "Mutiny on the Bounty", Charles Laughton in "Mutiny on the Bounty", Franchot Tone in "Mutiny on the Bounty"
BETTE DAVIS in "Dangerous", Elisabeth Bergner in "Escape Me Never", Claudette Colbert in "Private Worlds", Katharine Hepburn in "Alice Adams", Miriam Hopkins in "Becky Sharp", Merle Oberon in "The Dark Angel"
Elisabeth Bergner (with her sole nomination) as unwed mother Gemma Jones in the melodramatic Escape Me Never (the film's sole nomination - it was directed by Bergner's husband Paul Czinner)
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 Catherine the Great movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson; Directed by: Paul Czinner
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson; DIRECTED BY: Paul Czinner; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Georges Perinal.
Review: Slow but lavish and engrossing British dramatization of the tortured and doomed love affair between Catherine, Empress of Russia, and her irrational, drunken husband Peter.
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 Elisabeth Bergner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 1986 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
May 12 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b.
October 31 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
November 6 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b.
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 Movie Info for Cry of the Banshee on MSN Movies
Here Price plays Edward Whitman, a corrupt, sadistic magistrate in 16th-century Ireland who puts a quick and deadly stop to the activities of a local Druidic coven...
but not before the sect's leader Oona (Elisabeth Bergner) puts a curse on him and the Whitman family line, calling up a vengeful spirit known as a "sidhee" which takes flesh in the form of an otherwise mild-mannered stable boy (Patrick Mower).
As swift and violent retribution works its way through the Whitman family, so does this film snowball toward its bizarre and muddled conclusion -- made all the more confounding by rather choppy editing.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=21477   (199 words)

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