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Playing For Time (film)
''Playing for Time'' is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on musician Fania Fénelon's autobiography ''The Musicians of Auschwitz''. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon. ''Playing for Time'' was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors. The film was later adapted as a play by Miller. This was the last film of director Daniel Mann. Parts of the film were directed by Joseph Sargent, but only Mann was credited as director. Plot Fania Fénelon, a French Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II. After having their belongings and clothes taken and their heads shaved, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp. Fénelon is recognized as being a famous musician and she finds that she will be able to avoid hard manual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress. In her career spanning over six decades, she has garnered List of awards and nominations received by Vanessa Redgrave, numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion#Golden Lion Honorary Award, Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of ' in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy ''As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has since starred in numerous productions in the West End theatre, West End and on Broadway (theatre), Broadway. She won the Olivier Award for Laurence Olivier Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Rosé
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian and Jewish violinist. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive. As director, Rosé held the status of kapo of the music block. Rosé died in the concentration camp of a sudden illness, possibly food poisoning. Her experiences in the camp were depicted in '' Playing for Time''. Early years Alma Rosé's father was the violinist Arnold Rosé (né Rosenblum) who was the leader of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for 50 years: from 1881 to 1931 as well as leader of the Vienna State Opera orchestra and leader of the legendary Rosé String Quartet. Her mother, Justine, was Gustav Mahler's sister. Alma was named for her uncle Gustav's wife, Alma Mahler (née Schindler). Marriage Alma grew up to be a violinist. In 1930 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Wright
George Edward "Max" Wright (August 2, 1943 – June 26, 2019) was an American actor, known for his role as Willie Tanner on the sitcom '' ALF'' (1986–1990). Early life Wright was born August 2, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan, as George Edward Wright. He took the nickname "Max" as other actors were already known as George Wright. He moved to the suburb of Southfield as a child, graduating from Southfield Senior High School in 1961. While a student at Southfield, he was very active in the theatre program and had leads in two different musical productions. Career Film and television Wright made supporting appearances on television shows such as ''WKRP in Cincinnati,'' and was a regular cast member on '' Misfits of Science'', '' AfterMASH'', '' Buffalo Bill'', and '' The Norm Show'', and the made-for-TV adaptation of Stephen King's '' The Stand''. He appeared in the first and second seasons of the sitcom ''Friends'' as Terry, the manager of Central Perk. He played Günter Wend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish-American stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress. Biography Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the daughter of Karin Emilia Therese (née Dymling) and Axel Torsten Lindfors. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros., and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 100 films, including '' Night Unto Night'', '' No Sad Songs for Me'', '' Dark City'', '' The Halliday Brand'', ''King of Kings'', '' An Affair of the Skin'', '' Creepshow'', '' The Sure Thing'', and ''Stargate''. She appeared with actors including Stewart Granger, Ronald Reagan, Jeffrey Hunter, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Lizabeth Scott, and Errol Flynn. In 1952, she appeared on Broadway alongside Edmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Mandl
Maria Mandl (sometimes erroneously spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian-born Holocaust perpetrator who was the (camp leader) of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 1942 until her arrest in 1945. Born in Austria-Hungary, Mandl moved to Munich in 1938 after the annexation of Austria. There, she began working as a guard at the Lichtenburg concentration camp at the suggestion of her uncle. She quickly adapted to her role as an (overseer), subjecting prisoners to fatal beatings and whippings. Her sadistic behavior continued when she was transferred to Ravensbrück, where she was promoted to (head overseer). Having gained the respect of her superiors, including Max Kögl, for her brutality toward the prisoners, Mandl was promoted again and given the position of upon her transfer to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1942. Arrested following the Allied occupation of Germany in May 1945, Mandl was later tried at the Auschwitz trial, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Knight
Shirley Knight Hopkins (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles. She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: for ''The Dark at the Top of the Stairs'' (1960) and '' Sweet Bird of Youth'' (1962). In the 1960s, she had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films such as '' The Couch'' (1962), '' House of Women'' (1962), '' The Group'' (1966), '' The Counterfeit Killer'' (1968), and '' The Rain People'' (1969). She received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film '' Dutchman'' (1966). In 1976, Knight won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in ''Kennedy's Children'', a play by Robert Patrick. In later years, she played supporting roles in many films, including '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Levine
Anna Thomson (born September 18, 1953) is an American actress known for roles in Clint Eastwood's ''Unforgiven'' and several films directed by the Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek. Over the course of her career she was also credited as Anna Levine and Anna Levine-Thomson. Career Thomson made her acting debut in the Off-Broadway play ''Kid Champion'' in 1975, and at the recommendation of her friend Christopher Walken, who she considered her "godfather in cinema". She made her film debut in the 1979 war veteran drama ''Night-Flowers'' and made subsequent minor appearances in films including '' Heaven’s Gate'', ''Desperately Seeking Susan'', ''At Close Range'', '' Something Wild'', ''Wall Street'' and ''Fatal Attraction''. On the New York stage she appeared in plays including ''Uncommon Women and Others'', ''The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs'' and ''Barbarians''. High-profile film work continued into the 1990s, with Thomson cast in ''True Romance'', ''The Crow'' and '' Bad Boys'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Lee
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television and film roles, but was best known for playing Mr. Hooper, the original store proprietor of the eponymous Hooper's Store. He was one of the four original human characters on ''Sesame Street'', from the show's debut in November 1969 until his death on December 7, 1982, at the age of 74. Early career Lee was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. His father, a bookbinder, lost his job due to economic changes. Will Lee came to adulthood during the Great Depression. He worked odd jobs in New York City and absorbed the intellectual atmosphere of Greenwich Village, an enclave of avant-garde culture where small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater thrived. He began his career as a character actor on stage. He was a member of the Group Theater in the 1930s and appeared in '' Johnny Johnson'', ''Night Music'', ''Boy Meets Girl'', '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verna Bloom
Verna Frances Bloom (August 7, 1938 – January 9, 2019) was an American actress. Early life Verna Frances Bloom, born on August 7, 1938, in Lynn, Massachusetts, grew up in a Russian Jewish family where her father, Milton, operated a grocery store. Her mother, Sara (Damsky) Bloom, initially focused on managing their household. After Milton and Sara divorced, Sara took charge of the family grocery business and later transitioned to bookkeeping for a trucking company. She graduated from Boston University and later studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio for actors in New York. Career On Broadway, Bloom portrayed Charlotte Corday in '' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'' (1967) and Blanche Morton in '' Brighton Beach Memoirs'' (1983). She made her film debut in '' Medium Cool'', and then co-starred in Clint Eastwood's 1973 film, ''High Plains Drifter'' and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Berenson
Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson (born February 15, 1947) is an American actress and former model. She appeared on the front covers of '' Vogue'' and ''Time'', and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film ''Cabaret''. The role also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. Her other film appearances include '' Death in Venice'' (1971), '' Barry Lyndon'' (1975), '' S.O.B.'' (1981), and '' I Am Love'' (2009). In 2001, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of '' Design for Living''. Early life Childhood Berenson was born in New York City, the elder of two daughters. Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive. He was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent; the family's original paternal surname was ''Valvrojenski''. Her mother was Maria-Luisa Yvonne "Gogo" Radha de Wendt Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss and French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Bartlett
Robin Bartlett is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in two NBC sitcoms ''The Powers That Be'' and '' Mad About You''. Career She appeared in the short-lived series ''The Powers That Be''. She played the sister of a filmmaker in '' Mad About You'' and a television producer in ''Sisters''. She played a teacher in two films, '' Lean on Me'' and '' If Looks Could Kill''. She played the drug rehab roommate for '' Postcards from the Edge''. In addition, she played the dean of a private school in an episode ("The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial") of the HBO series ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. In June 2010, it was announced Barlett would play Hannah Pitt in Signature Theatre Company's 20th-anniversary production of Tony Kushner's '' Angels in America.'' She played Bridget Kearns in '' Shutter Island'' in 2010. In 2013, she portrayed Miranda Crump in ''American Horror Story''s second season, '' Asylum'', and later that year returned for the third season, ''Coven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom ''Cybill'' (1995–1998). Baranski is also known for her roles as Diane Lockhart in the legal drama series ''The Good Wife'' (2009–2016) and its spin-off series ''The Good Fight'' (2017–2022), and as Agnes van Rhijn in the period drama series '' The Gilded Age'' (2022–present), both roles which earned her Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Baranski is also known for her film roles in '' Reversal of Fortune'' (1990), '' The Birdcage'' (1996), '' Cruel Intentions'' (1999), '' How the Grinch Stole Christmas'' (2000), ''Chicago'' (2002), '' Mamma Mia!'' (2008), ''Into the Woods'' (2014), and ''Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'' (2018). For her recurring role as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter in the sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' (2009–2019), she received four Primetime Emmy Award nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
