I Am a Camera
I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play inspired by Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to Berlin which is part of The Berlin Stories. The title is a quote taken from the novel's first page ("I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.").
The Broadway play by John Van Druten was a personal success for Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles, winning her the first of her four Tony Awards for Best Leading Actress in a play. However it also earned the famous review by Walter Kerr, "Me no Leica".[1][2]
The 1955 film adaptation was also called I Am a Camera. With a screenplay by John Collier and music by Malcolm Arnold, it starred Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters. However, the film had a poor critical reception.
The play and film in turn went on to inspire the musical Cabaret (1966) by John Kander and Fred Ebb and the film Cabaret (1972) with Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York.
References
- ^ Botto, Louis."Quotable Critics" playbill.com, May 28, 2008
- ^ Friedman, M. (1989). "Commercial expressions in American humor: an analysis of selected popular-cultural works of the postwar era". Humor - International Journal of Humor Research. 2 (3): 265–284. doi:10.1515/humr.1989.2.3.265. ISSN 1613-3722.
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