Comments on: Adonises Of Silver Operetta? Or: A Re-Encounter With Adolf Wohlbrück

By: Richard Duployen

Richard Duployen — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:55:54 +0000

Thank you so much. I can impersonate his wonderful, moving delivery of (paraphrase) “Miss Page will not be able to appear… or indeed at any other performance” “the Red Shoes”. I don’t think he tried a Russian accent.

I can recommend James Downs “Anton Walbrook a Life of Masks and Mirrors”.

Anton’s vocal efforts are on YouTube. As a trained actor/singer myself I would say he does sing occasionally as opposed to speaking over the music. He seems to have had problems with his opinion of his nice actor’s baritone voice, Like Ivor Novello. Ivor does sing nicely for a few bars in the film “I stayed with you”. With Cosmo “Call me Madam” someone said another Cosmo spoke over the music as much as Walbrook. Anton is versatile with a great personality With accents could he do an English accent in German for Sir Hugo Latymer Coward)for instance? His last role. One performance had a to continue with the director reading in as Anton had a heart attack.

With the duet “Man Steigt Nach” Fall “die geschiedene Frau” what roles are Anton and & Lucie Mannheim playing? What do people think of “the Gipsy Baron” film? I think Anton just sings a bit of the pig-breeder’s song. Saffi is allowed the Gipsy Song. I’ve read the Jokai story. Was it re-written?

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 12 May 2020 07:57:26 +0000

The Adolf Wohlbrück FB group has absolutely (!) no problems discussing his sexuality, I can assure you.

By: James Harris

James Harris — Mon, 11 May 2020 20:49:59 +0000

It’s possible that the Facebook group is closed precisely because they don’t want anybody talking about Wohlbrück’s sexual orientation (too upsetting to the homophobic fans), If you must be member to post, they can instantly eject any member who broaches the forbidden topic. There are Valentino groups where a mere whisper about bisexuality, even sourced to a biography, will get you the boot.

By: Robert Wennersten

Robert Wennersten — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:52:38 +0000

Ralph Benatzky told a funny story in his diaries about Charell and Dietrich: “Marlene Dietrich often comes across Charell, who takes no notice of her, at the hotel in Versailles. She is ostentatiously wearing trousers, has a pipe and bowler hat. When she finally confronts Erik about why he did not greet her, he says: ‘In our part of the country it is the custom that the man greets the lady first.’”