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Dolly, Lotte und Maria

Title: Dolly, Lotte und Maria [videorecording] / Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion ; directed, produced, and edited by Rosa von Praunheim.
Publication: c1987.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Rosa von Praunheim [a male filmmaker and gay rights activist] interviews three German women, united by their origins as successful dancers in Berlin of the 1930s. All left Nazi Germany for reasons of conscience, and eventually settled in the U.S. Each discusses her beginnings as a performer, her achievements in Europe, the reasons that motivated her to leave Germany, her decision to move to the U.S., and her current activities.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Lotte Goslar Pantomime Circus Foundation.

Uniform Title

Grandma always danced (Choreographic work : Goslar)
Little heap of misery (Choreographic work : Goslar)

Subject

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Interviews.
Video.

Note

For an English-language version, see: *MGZIA 4-7343.

Credits (note)

Camera, Jeff Preiss.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: Lotte Goslar, Dolly Haas, Maria Ley-Piscator.

Language (note)

In German.

Contents

[Interview with Lotte Goslar] (ca. 25 min.) / interviewed in her Connecticut home, dancer-mime Lotte Goslar describes how she began to dance; joining the dance company of Gret Palucca; her first solo, The disgruntled; her performing career in Europe, including her work with Erika Mann's Pepper Mill group, with which she went to the U.S.; performing at the Turnabout Theater in Hollywood; her marriage; meeting with Bertolt Brecht, who wrote a scenario for her [Circus scene]; forming the Pantomime Circus in 1959. She is seen rehearsing with the Pantomime Circus, and performs two solos from her repertory, Grandma always danced and Little heap of misery.
[Interview with Dolly Haas] (ca. 21 min.) / Dolly Haas, who now lives on Manhattan's East Side, recalls how she started her career as a stage performer before being tapped for screen roles by the German film company Ufa. She discusses some of her roles, and is seen in a clip from her favorite, Scampolo, directed by Hans Steinhoff and written by Billy Wilder. She discusses her film work in England and the U.S., which was followed by roles on the New York stage. A clip from Alfred Hitchcock's I confess [German title: Ich gestehe] shows Haas in her only American film. She is seen with her husband, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, in his studio; discusses her decision to retire from performing life; and sings the Weill-Brecht song "Mack the Knife."
[Interview with Maria Ley-Piscator] (ca. 28 min.) / the life story of Maria Ley-Piscator is told partly through her own words and partly through readings of her recently published memoirs. She discusses her three marriages, the last to director Erwin Piscator, a proponent of political theater. The program discusses the couple's work at the New School in New York City, and Maria's continuing work there after her husband's departure from the city and his death in 1966.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7345

OCLC

NYPY03-F675

Title

Dolly, Lotte und Maria [videorecording] / Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion ; directed, produced, and edited by Rosa von Praunheim.

Imprint

c1987.

Country of Producing Entity

Germany.

Credits

Camera, Jeff Preiss.

Performer

Interviewees: Lotte Goslar, Dolly Haas, Maria Ley-Piscator.

Language

In German.

Added Author

Praunheim, Rosa von, 1942- Director. Producer. Film editor. Interviewer

Goslar, Lotte, choreographer.

Goslar, Lotte, dancer.

Goslar, Lotte. Interviewee

Haas, Dolly, 1910-1994. Actor

Haas, Dolly, 1910-1994. Singer

Haas, Dolly, 1910-1994, interviewee.

Ley-Piscator, Maria. Author in quotations or text abstracts. Interviewee

Steinhoff, Hans, 1882-1945. Director

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, film director.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

Lotte Goslar's Pantomime Circus.

Added Title

Grandma always danced (Choreographic work : Goslar)

Little heap of misery (Choreographic work : Goslar)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7345

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