European Exiles in '40S Hollywood: Their Impact on Film Noir
LATEST NO STOCKS DVD NO SPORTS NEWS ™ ALL NOIR www.noircity.com www.filmnoirfoundation.org VOL. I NUMBER 8 CCCC**** A PUBLICATION OF THE FILM NOIR FOUNDATION MONTHLY 2 CENTS NOVEMBER, 2006 On the Director’s Centennial First Installment of a Regular Sentinel Series Otto Honored By EUROPEAN EXILES IN ’40s HOLLYWOOD: The Academy THEIR IMPACT ON FILM NOIR By Alan Rode By Marc Svetov Turhan Bey, Steven Geray, Philip Van Zandt, Special to the Sentinel Curt Bois, Walter Slezak, Ernst Deutsch; also “…So there will be no Christmas trees, Kurt Kreuger, Martin Kosleck, Helmut but there will be delousing with undamentally, forties films featuring Dantine, Otto Waldis, Carl Esmond, Paul ice water from the hoses.” émigrés haven’t dated. They still speak Lukas. to us, strongly. Shall we make a list? Actresses: Marlene Dietrich, Hedy That line, delivered by Otto Preminger in a F Directors: Otto Preminger and Billy Lamarr, Lilli Palmer, Micheline Chierel. clip from his famous role as the camp com- Wilder; Robert Siodmak and Fred Zinne- European scholars tend to overstate mandant in Stalag 17, opened a two week mann, John Brahm, André de Toth, Michael what the émigrés brought to noir in terms of tribute to the legendary director this month at Curtiz, Fritz Lang, Anatole Litvak; Max “Old World” styles, while American scholars the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, William seem to understate this influence — or, at (The same series played last month at the Dieterle, Curtis Bernhardt, John Auer, Alfred least, mischaracterize it. We need a fresh per- Museum of Modern Art in New York; other Zeisler, Max Nosseck; Charles Vidor, Edgar spective.
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