Anton Walbrook: the continental consort
Anton Walbrook: the continental consort
In 1937 Viennese actor Anton Walbrook became an international star. While he had a growing profile in Europe, Walbrook’s Austrian and German films had received limited circulation in the UK and America, and it was the success of his Hollywood debut, The Soldier and the Lady (UK title: Michael Strogoff), directed by George Nicholls Jr., in the summer that year that consolidated his profile. Yet the role that really secured Walbrook’s film career and fashioned his star persona for at least the next decade was that of Albert, the Prince Consort, to British star Anna Neagle’s Victoria in Wilcox’s historical biopic Victoria the Great and its Technicolor sequel, Sixty Glorious Years (1938). This chapter explores the ways in which Walbrook’s émigré biography resonated with the contemporary issues of national identity, nostalgia and landscape that can be seen to inform Walbrook's pivotal roles of 1936-40.
film studies, refugee & migration studies, 20th-century history
9781845455323
155-171
Williams, Michael
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2008
Williams, Michael
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Williams, Michael
(2008)
Anton Walbrook: the continental consort.
In,
Bergfelder, Tim and Cargnelli, Christian
(eds.)
Destination London: German Speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950.
(Film Europa, 6)
Oxford, GB.
Berghahn Books, .
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In 1937 Viennese actor Anton Walbrook became an international star. While he had a growing profile in Europe, Walbrook’s Austrian and German films had received limited circulation in the UK and America, and it was the success of his Hollywood debut, The Soldier and the Lady (UK title: Michael Strogoff), directed by George Nicholls Jr., in the summer that year that consolidated his profile. Yet the role that really secured Walbrook’s film career and fashioned his star persona for at least the next decade was that of Albert, the Prince Consort, to British star Anna Neagle’s Victoria in Wilcox’s historical biopic Victoria the Great and its Technicolor sequel, Sixty Glorious Years (1938). This chapter explores the ways in which Walbrook’s émigré biography resonated with the contemporary issues of national identity, nostalgia and landscape that can be seen to inform Walbrook's pivotal roles of 1936-40.
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Published date: 2008
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film studies, refugee & migration studies, 20th-century history
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/143293
ISBN: 9781845455323
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Tim Bergfelder
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Christian Cargnelli
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