Goodbye to Berlin

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Isherwood, Christopher (1976). Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929–1939. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374-53522-3– via Google Books. Allen, Brooke (19 December 2004). "Isherwood: The Uses of Narcissism". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved 18 June 2018. The real Isherwood, though not without many sympathetic qualities, was petty, selfish and supremely egotistical. The least political of the so-called Auden group, Isherwood was always guided by his personal motivations rather than by abstract ideas. Bernhard rings up Christopher and asks if he wants to come to a secret destination. He calls round in his chauffeur-driven car and they drive along a stretch of motorway out to the Wannsee to an astonishingly luxurious built right by the shore, built by Bernhard’s father in 1904. His mother was English, Jewish, she became more interested in Jewish culture and studied Hebrew even as her cancer got worse until the pain was so severe she killed herself. All this and more Bernhard tells him over dinner and as they walk out to the shore in the darkness. The conversation gets bad-tempered when Bernhard explains he is experimenting with himself, he hasn’t had a private conversation with anyone about anything for ten years, he wanted to try it out. Christopher doesn’t enjoy being a guinea pig. The musical was revived again in 1998 with Natasha Richardson as Sally. Richardson won the 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. [50] As the run continued, actresses including Tina Arena, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Susan Egan, Joely Fisher, Gina Gershon, Deborah Gibson, Teri Hatcher, Melina Kanakaredes, Jane Leeves, Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields, Lea Thompson, and Vanna White appeared in the role. The 2014 Broadway revival starred Michelle Williams as Sally, with Emma Stone and Sienna Miller as subsequent replacements. [53] Parker, Peter (September 2004). "Ross, Jean Iris (1911–1973)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/74425 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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Spender, Stephen (1966) [1951]. World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-679-64045-5– via Google Books. The omnibus inspired the John Van Druten play I Am a Camera, which in turn inspired the film I Am a Camera as well as the famous stage musical and film versions of Cabaret. [3] Sally Bowles is the best-known character from The Berlin Stories, and she became the focus of the Cabaret musical and film, although she is merely the main character of a single short story in Goodbye to Berlin. [2] In later years, Ross regretted her public association with the naïve and apolitical character of Sally Bowles. [4] Izzo, David Garrett (2005). Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia. London: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1519-3 . Retrieved 4 March 2021– via Google Books.

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Then Klaus decamps to London where he’s got a good job orchestrating music for the movies and a few weeks later Sally gets the inevitable letter from him saying they must part because he’s fallen in love with the most marvellous English society lady and Fraulein Schroeder is scandalised, and Christopher listens loyally while Sally whines and smokes and the reader is bored.

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Mizejewski, Linda (1992). Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07896-3– via Internet Archive. Clarke, Gerald (1988). Capote: A Biography. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-22811-0 . Retrieved 18 November 2018– via Google Books. Stansky 1976: Isherwood was a "self-indulgent upper middle-class foreign tourist" who was "a good deal less dedicated to political passion than the legend has had it." She is merely acclimatizing herself, in accordance with a natural law, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town.” Isherwood, Christopher (2008) [1945]. The Berlin Stories. New York City: New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-0070-7– via Google Books.I went to my father and asked him, 'What can you tell me about Thirties' glamour? Should I be emulating Marlene Dietrich or something?' And he said 'No, study everything you can about Louise Brooks.'" [57] Peter Parker notes that Ross "claimed that Isherwood 'grossly underrated' her singing abilities, but her family agreed that this was one aspect of Sally Bowles that Isherwood got absolutely right". [23] Gray, Margaret (20 July 2016). "50 years of 'Cabaret': How the 1966 musical keeps sharpening its edges for modern times". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California . Retrieved 11 February 2022.

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John van Druten's Sally wasn't quite Christopher's Sally; John made her humor cuter and naughtier. And Julie [Harris] contributed much of herself to the character. She seemed vulnerable but untouchable... stubbornly obedient to the voices of her fantasies; a bohemian Joan of Arc." Isherwood 1976, p.63: "On at least one occasion, because of some financial or housing emergency, they [Isherwood and Ross] shared a bed without the least embarrassment. Jean knew Otto and Christopher's other sex mates but showed no desire to share them, although he wouldn't have really minded". Grossman, Lev (6 January 2010). "All-Time 100 Novels: The Berlin Stories". Time . Retrieved 4 March 2021. She had immense, dark, hungry eyes. The wedding-ring was loose on her bony finger. When she talked and became excited her hands flitted tirelessly about in sequences of aimless gestures, like two shrivelled moths.Isherwood 1976, p.84: "... the American thrilled them by inviting them to come with him to the States and then dashed their hopes by leaving Berlin abruptly, without saying goodbye." Isherwood 1998, p.45: "This job at the Lady Windermere only lasts another week. I got it through a man I met at the Eden Bar. But he's gone off to Vienna now. I must ring up the Ufa people again, I suppose. And then there's an awful old Jew who takes me out sometimes. He's always promising to get me a contract; but he only wants to sleep with me, the old swine."