V032: City of Strangers: Driven into Paradise
British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC), color (1992), 45:00
Narrated by Sam Wanamaker
Executive Producer: Diana Lashmore
Associate Producer: Sue Knussen
Produced by Ann Hummel for the BBC
Time | Description |
0:00 | Credits |
1:15 | Voice-over, film clip of Gold Diggers (1935) |
1:40 | Interview with Christopher Hampton, author of Tales from Hollywood |
2:00 | Quick photo of Schönberg, one of many artists who fled Germany in the 1930s |
2:16 | Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, writer and producer |
2:36 | Footage of Hitler and the Nazi party |
3:19 | Interview with Rudi Fehr, film editor |
3:37 | Interview with Marianne Brün, daughter of actor Fritz Kortner |
3:56 | Interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, daughter of AS |
4:05 | Footage of Jews leaving Europe by ship |
4:20 | Interview with Prof. James K. Lyon, author of Bertolt Brecht in America |
4:45 | Footage of Nazi book burning |
5:10 | Discussion of degenerate music and Ernst Krenek |
5:40 | Interview with Krenek |
6:29 | Composition in Blue (1934), animation by Oskar Fischinger |
7:00 | Interview with Elfriede Fischinger, artist |
7:20 | Discussion of Fischinger's innovations in animation; footage of his award-winning cigarette commercial "Muratti Marches On" (1933) |
8:00 | Interview with Elfriede Fischinger (cont'd.) |
9:00 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), directed by Fritz Lang |
9:50 | Interview with Fritz Lang (filmed in 1967) |
11:50 | Footage of 1930s Los Angeles |
12:25 | Interview with Vincent Price |
12:40 | Elfriede Fischinger |
12:50 | Rudi Fehr |
13:15 | Footage of Hollywood |
13:30 | Interview with Curt Siodmak, writer |
13:55 | Interview with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor |
14:15 | Footage of Fox studios |
14:50 | Interview with Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own |
15:10 | Footage from 1930s, discussion of Max Reinhardt's activities |
15:50 | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) |
16:30 | Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt |
17:40 | Footage of Max Reinhardt's activity in the theater |
18:14 | Michael Tilson Thomas |
18:35 | Emigrés acting as film extras |
18:50 | Christopher Hampton |
19:20 | Discussion of Paul Kohner's activities |
19:35 | Interview with Lupita Tovar, widow of Paul Kohner |
20:00 | Elfriede Fischinger |
21:45 | Role of the screenwriter |
22:20 | Christopher Hampton |
23:00 | Warner Brothers studios |
23:20 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
23:40 | Discussion of Thomas and Heinrich Mann's activities |
25:25 | I Walked With a Zombie (1943), written by Curt Siodmak |
26:00 | Curt Siodmak on adapting to American culture |
26:50 | Gottfried Reinhardt on the difficulties for the older generation to adapt |
27:30 | Marianne Brün |
28:15 | Discussion of Salka Viertel's salon and her role in the émigré community |
28:40 | Bertolt Brecht's activities |
29:10 | Discussion of Arnold Schönberg's activities |
29:20 | Interview with Leonard Stein |
29:30 | Footage of Schönberg playing tennis with Gershwin, Malibu party |
29:55 | Interview with Lukas Foss, composer |
30:20 | Story of Schönberg's encounter with Irving Thalberg regarding The Good Earth |
30:30 | Interview with David Raksin, composer |
31:30 | Deception (1946) |
32:10 | Schönberg home movies, interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono and with Randol Schoenberg, grandson of AS |
33:30 | David Raksin |
34:00 | Footage of Schönberg's Rockingham home |
35:50 | Vincent Price on AS |
36:45 | Deception (1946) |
37:25 | Tilson Thomas on educational opportunities in LA |
38:45 | Hollywood in the 1930s; Gottfried Reinhardt |
39:45 | War footage, American anti-war propaganda |
41:10 | Neal Gabler |
41:46 | Credits |
42:35 | End |