I Am a Camera
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I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories.
Julie Harris as Sally Bowles Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, May 1952
Goodbye to Berlin
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Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by English-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic. The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn in Berlin as a pl
I Am a Camera
…I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories. The title is a quotation taken from the novel's first page: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive…
The cover of the first edition
Isherwood in 1939
Jean Ross inspired the character of Sally Bowles.
Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles