Saturday, November 25, 2006

Brigitte Helm - Second of three postings

The following is a paragraph taken from the NYT obituary, June 14th 1996.

Yet for all the acclaim she received for such roles as her portrayal of a blind girl in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's "Love of Jeanne Ney," or as a bored aristocratic wanton in his "Crisis," Ms. Helm could never eclipse the role, or rather rules, in which the good Maria, an oppressed working girl, is transformed into an evil robotic doppelganger of herself in Lang's "Metropolis."








Brigitte Helm - What do you think? Allure?

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