D'Arrast's ''Topaze'', Mark of a Forgotten Master.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bloomsbury Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant Garde.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Video. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022.

Other Title:

Bloomsbury Video Library.

Place of Publication:

Kent, CT.: Creative Arts Television. 2011.

Summary:

Eminent cinema historians Herman Weinberg and William K. Everson discuss the career of film director Harry d'Abbadie D'Arrast, with excerpts from his film <i>Topaze</i>. D'Arrast was a French nobleman who came to Hollywood in the silent film era and became Chaplin's assistant on <i>Gold Rush</i>. He made a few witty and elegant films but fell out with the studio system and returned to Europe. <i>Topaze</i> (1933, produced by David Selznick at RKO) has a script by Ben Hecht from a Marcel Pagnol play; it stars John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason and Jobyna Howland. Herman Weinberg stayed in touch with D'Arrast; he relates how in his later years he supported himself by gambling at the Monte Carlo. Colour .

Credits:

Director, John Musilli ; producer, John Musilli.

ISBN:

9781350911017

OCLC:

1356505125

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.