I Am a Camera (film)
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I Am a Camera is a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles.
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For the 1955 film, Julie Harris recreated her stage performance as Sally Bowles. Her performance in the 1951 play had garnered rave reviews.
The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther blasted the film's script by John Collier for largely discarding the original source material by Van Druten and Isherwood.
The Berlin Stories
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The Berlin Stories is a 1945 omnibus by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood and consisting of the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939). The two novels are set in Jazz Age Berlin between 1930 and 1933 on the cusp of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power. Berlin is portrayed by Isherwood during this chaotic interwar period as a carnival of debauchery and despair inhabited by desperate people who are unaware of the national catastrophe that awaits them.
The cover of the first edition
Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden circa 1938.
John Van Druten adapted Isherwood's work into the 1951 Broadway play I Am a Camera.
Isherwood in 1939