#max reinhardt

[str4wanzerin]

Max: He is getting to be a serious pain in the you-know-what.

Oskar: The nose? The ear?

Max: Would it really give you that much pleasure to hear me say, 'arse'?

Oskar: Well, I was not sure, but yes.

[wedekinds-wendla]

When I found this image in my old undergrad theatre history textbook today, I shrieked with excitement - it's a set design for the vineyard scene in the original 1906 production of Spring Awakening, directed by Max Reinhardt.

I found a clearer version online, in the Max Reinhardt Archive (source).

I adore the intricate details!

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Nam sunt litterae quidem ac libri certa rerum memoria et scibilium omnium communis apotheca.*

Vergerio

Letters and books are a record of things and the common treasury of all knowable things.*

I was once a guest here for a private wedding in Salzburg. It’s a stunning residence and well worth a visit if you are ever visiting Salzburg. If you think you recognise the Schloss Leopoldskron, then you might remember that it was used extensively for the classic movie The Sound of Music (1965).

In 1736, Salzburg prince-archbishop Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian built Schloss Leopoldskron as the family residence. Standing right next to the beautiful Leopoldskron Pond, it captivates with panoramic views of the surrounding mountain world. Because of his special ties to the palace, the prince-archbishop had his heart interred in the chapel of Schloss Leopoldskron.

Europe’s most famous theatre impresario, Max Reinhardt, purchased Schloss Leopoldskron in 1918. Over the course of 20 years, he restored this jewel of the Baroque to renewed glory. In those days, the palace also served as an international, high-profile meeting place for the artistic and cultural scene.

It was at the Schloss Leopoldskron that Max Reinhardt, together with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, founded the famous Salzburg Festival.

[davidhudson]

Max Reinhardt, September 9, 1873 – October 30, 1943.

[byneddiedingo]

James Cagney and Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, 1935) Cast: Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Dewey Robinson, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr., based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Hal Mohr. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: Ralph Dawson. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, adapted from works by Felix Mendelssohn. Costume design: Max Rée. Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska The spirit that animates this version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is not that of William Shakespeare but Felix Mendelssohn. Shakespeare's text has been trimmed to a nubbin and hashed up by the "arrangers," Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr., and it's gabbled by the all-star cast. Strangely, Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Rooney are the worst offenders, since they are the only members of the cast of Max Reinhardt's celebrated 1934 Hollywood Bowl production who made it into the movie. De Havilland delivers her lines with heavy emphasis on seemingly random words and with odd pauses, while Rooney punctuates every line with giggles, chortles, and shrieks that affect some viewers like fingernails on a chalkboard. Nobody in the cast seems to be aware that they're speaking verse. Fortunately, the decision was made to use the Mendelssohn overture and incidental music (along with snippets of other works by Mendelssohn), and to have it orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The result is an opulently balletic version of the play, taking advantage of what can be done in movies that can't be done on stage. Is it good? Maybe not, but it's much more fun than the stodgily reverent version of Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) that MGM came up with the following year. Casting James Cagney as Bottom/Pyramus and Joe E. Brown as Flute/Thisby was a masterstroke, and if they had been directed by someone with a surer sense of American comic idiom than Reinhardt, the Viennese refugee from Hitler who spoke very little English (co-director William Dieterle, a German émigré, acted as interpreter), the results would have been classic -- as it is, they're just bumptious fun. Much of the design for the movie is reminiscent of the work of early 20th century illustrators of children's books like Walter Crane, Arthur Rackham, and John R. Neill, though with a tendency toward the twee. But there is a spectacular moment in the film when Oberon gathers the fairies, gnomes, and bat-winged sprites to depart, under a billowing smoky black train. The cinematography by Hal Mohr won the only write-in Oscar ever granted by the Academy.

[almanaquecaleidoscopico]

A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle, 1935).

[shakespearenews]

According to letters in the park’s historical archive, University of California and Yosemite officials discussed mounting a “Midsummer” production in front of Yosemite Falls. It would be directed by revered theater director and Austrian Jew Max Reinhardt, who fled to the States to escape the closing fist of Nazism. For reasons lost to time the plan fizzled; Reinhardt later staged the play at the Hollywood Bowl with a cast that included Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland.

[rwpohl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YA9Chqmi1o

[frnndlcs]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Max Reinhardt, 1935

[adrian-paul-botta]

Lillian Gish in Berlin Germany (Train Station) - May 1930 - She visited Germany for Max Reinhardt - to study scenario and contract for ''Stigmata''

[byneddiedingo]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, 1935)

Cast: Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Dewey Robinson, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr., based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Hal Mohr. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: Ralph Dawson. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, adapted from works by Felix Mendelssohn. Costume design: Max Rée. Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska

I was enamoured of… an ass!

Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

[perfettamentechic]

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[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Socialite and actress (and Great Aunt of Prime Minister David Cameron), Lady Diana first became known as a member of 'The Coterie' set in London before the first World War. Following her marriage in 1919 to Alfred Duff Cooper (later Viscount Norwich), who was to serve as a minister in Churchill's War Cabinet, Lady Diana's reputation as a society hostess was confirmed. Her reputation as a beauty was cemented with Hoppé's decision to include her in the 1922, Book of Fair Women. As an actress, her most famous role was as the Madonna in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, a role she played on Broadway in 1923 and was to play for three years on tour around Europe and in Britain.

Lady Diana Manners John Singer Sargent, 1914

[coffeenewstom]

Café Tomaselli in Salzburg

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[missanthropicprinciple]

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