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Although RKO convinced the Jewish organizations to lift the boycott by pointing out Walbrook's actual ethnic heritage, the damage was done. [10] He moved to London in 1937, settling down in an area with many German-speaking emigres.
27 Απρ 2021 · To mark the publication of his new biography, James Downs explores the life of Anton Walbrook. It must be fairly unusual for someone who was referred to as a ‘Jewish actor’ and was admired for his generous support of Jewish refugees during World War II, to have also been boycotted by Jewish groups due to suspicions of being a Nazi spy.
31 Ιουλ 2022 · Adolf Wohlbrück (yet to become Anton Walbrook) gave his religion as Catholic to the German authorities in 1933. His father was Lutherian, his schooling was Catholic; so was his mother, but her ancestry was Jewish and although the authorities were suspicious, Wohlbrück managed to conceal both his non-Aryan roots and his homosexuality from them.
A hugely popular film star in both Hitler’s Germany and in wartime Britain, actor Anton Walbrook was famous under two different names. Of Jewish heritage, and gay in an era when homosexuality was illegal he cultivated a mysterious image.
Rosalinda!! (1955) Walbrook--who had left Germany in the early 1930s--would not speak to either Anneliese Rothenberger (extremely temperamental) or Oskar Sima (playing Frosch, in the film a signally unfunny interpreter), both of whom he claimed had been Nazis.
29 Ιαν 2014 · Homosexual, and classified as half-Jewish, Walbrook left Austria in 1936. After a time working in the US he moved to Britain and settled there as Anton Walbrook. He could speak excellent...
Walbrook (or Wohlbruck as he was then) was Austrian by birth and his father was a circus performer. He also had some Jewish origins. The early chapters valuably place his work in the context of German stage and film history, and demonstrate the volatility of cultural conditions in the 1920s.
