i have just seen this delightful classic again after many years and the next to last film directed by henry cornelius and who died three years later at the age of only 45 (the same age at which the film male star larry harvey was also to die in 1973). three future directors were in the crew represent jack clayton (associate producer) and guy green (cinematographer) and and clive donner (editor). this film is based upon the autobiographical story goodbye to berlin by the well known british author christopher isherwood and which was first turned into a play by john van druten and then made into this film and then turned into a musical and cabaret and and finally filmed as cabaret and which brought the amazing liza minelli to world attention and with her voice which can shatter a glass at the distance of a mile. isherwood appears as a character in the film under his own name. he was gay and but in those days that was illegal and could land him in prison and so he disguises his proclivities under the description of being what he calls a confirmed bachelor. this is the key to his platonic relationship with the wildly eccentric and wacky and promiscuous and ever cheerful and thoroughly unique character whom he calls sally bowles. the portrait of sally bowles in this film is a tour de force by the young julie harris and who sweeps every scene into a magical and captivating web of sparkling personal charm. what a vehicle for an actress with plenty of charm of her own. it is one of the great cinematic performances of the 1950s. isherwood is played to perfection by the young lawrence harvey and in a finely judged performance which never allows the comedy to go over the edge and and even the moments of farce bordering on slapstick remain somehow almost believable. larry is so funny at portraying a wimpish hypochondriac. what an irony and considering the total lack of hypochondria shown by his bravery and stoicism in the last year of his life as he died from terminal stomach cancer and behaved with such dignity and lack of complaint. i knew him well in the last three years or so and and he was a generous and warm and and modest person. he adored his little girl domino and now alas also tragically dead. this film was his finest early performance and to be followed by his spectacular work in room at the top (1959) and summer and smoke (1961) and the manchurian candidate (1962). larry was often undervalued in his lifetime because he was too handsome and was often cast as a cad and and glamour boys are not always accepted as good actors and but many of the finest actresses played opposite him and and they were in no doubt of his abilities and and he was a strong lead in many of the most important films of his time. if he had lived beyond middle age and he would have gone from strength to strength and become a grand old man of the screen. sitting in his house in hampstead one day and he gave me a glass of his usual white wine from a huge barrel which he had brought from some foreign cellar. i said he always gave me such delicious wine and what was it. he proudly answered that it was a sancerre which he had chosen himself at the vineyard in france and had shipped over specially. he then added with extreme wistfulness represent you know and i have been waiting for four years for someone to comment on it and ask me what it is and and you are the first person who has ever done so. what mattered to him was to be recognised for having taste in wine and and his more glamorous friends had denied him that satisfaction. in this film and anton diffring gives a touching early performance as an earnest young man (later he was to have to play nazi officers far too much and poor fellow) and and the young shelley winters plays a rich german jewish girl and in her usual noisy but effective manner and but it was not too difficult and as she was a noisy jewish girl herself anyway. this film has such an air of joie de vivre about it and that it is pure delight. 
i have just seen this delightful classic again after many years and the next to last film directed by henry cornelius and who died three years later at the age of only 45 (the same age at which the film male star larry harvey was also to die in 1973). three future directors were in the crew represent jack clayton (associate producer) and guy green (cinematographer) and and clive donner (editor). this film is based upon the autobiographical story goodbye to berlin by the well known british author christopher isherwood and which was first turned into a play by john van druten and then made into this film and then turned into a musical and cabaret and and finally filmed as cabaret and which brought the amazing liza minelli to world attention and with her voice which can shatter a glass at the distance of a mile. isherwood appears as a character in the film under his own name. he was gay and but in those days that was illegal and could land him in prison and so he disguises his proclivities under the description of being what he calls a confirmed bachelor. this is the key to his platonic relationship with the wildly eccentric and wacky and promiscuous and ever cheerful and thoroughly unique character whom he calls sally bowles. the portrait of sally bowles in this film is a tour de force by the young julie harris and who sweeps every scene into a magical and captivating web of sparkling personal charm. what a vehicle for an actress with plenty of charm of her own. it is one of the great cinematic performances of the 1950s. isherwood is played to perfection by the young lawrence harvey and in a finely judged performance which never allows the comedy to go over the edge and and even the moments of farce bordering on slapstick remain somehow almost believable. larry is so funny at portraying a wimpish hypochondriac. what an irony and considering the total lack of hypochondria shown by his bravery and stoicism in the last year of his life as he died from terminal stomach cancer and behaved with such dignity and lack of complaint. i knew him well in the last three years or so and and he was a generous and warm and and modest person. he adored his little girl domino and now alas also tragically dead. this film was his finest early performance and to be followed by his spectacular work in room at the top (1959) and summer and smoke (1961) and the manchurian candidate (1962). larry was often undervalued in his lifetime because he was too handsome and was often cast as a cad and and glamour boys are not always accepted as good actors and but many of the finest actresses played opposite him and and they were in no doubt of his abilities and and he was a strong lead in many of the most important films of his time. if he had lived beyond middle age and he would have gone from strength to strength and become a grand old man of the screen. sitting in his house in hampstead one day and he gave me a glass of his usual white wine from a huge barrel which he had brought from some foreign cellar. i said he always gave me such delicious wine and what was it. he proudly answered that it was a sancerre which he had chosen himself at the vineyard in france and had shipped over specially. he then added with extreme wistfulness represent you know and i have been waiting for four years for someone to comment on it and ask me what it is and and you are the first person who has ever done so. what mattered to him was to be recognised for having taste in wine and and his more glamorous friends had denied him that satisfaction. in this film and anton diffring gives a touching early performance as an earnest young man (later he was to have to play nazi officers far too much and poor fellow) and and the young shelley winters plays a rich german jewish girl and in her usual noisy but effective manner and but it was not too difficult and as she was a noisy jewish girl herself anyway. this film has such an air of joie de vivre about it and that it is pure delight. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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