Telephone Butterfield 8
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Telephone Butterfield 8 |
| Original title | BUtterfield 8 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Mann |
| script |
John Michael Hayes , Charles Snow |
| production | Pandro S. Berman |
| music | Bronislau caper |
| camera |
Joseph Ruttenberg , Charles Harten |
| cut | Ralph E. Winters |
| occupation | |
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Telephone Butterfield 8 (Original title: Butterfield 8 ) is an American drama film directed by Daniel Mann from 1960, based on the novel Butterfield 8 (1935) by John O'Hara .
action
The attractive Gloria has countless affairs with rich men. She was abused as a teenager and doesn't feel love. She can only talk about her feelings and past with her only friend, Steve. But one day she meets Weston, the husband of a corporate heiress. Weston, an idle playboy, and Gloria begin an affair that develops into passionate love for each other. Due to a misunderstanding, Gloria thinks she has lost Weston. She tries to win him back. But the attempt ends in a catastrophe and Gloria is killed in a traffic accident.
title
The unconventional novel and film title refers to the part of a telephone number that identifies the relevant exchange . By the 1960s, the United States and Canada officially replaced the first two digits of a phone number with a memorable name that began with two letters to match the digits when dialed by letters . The third digit was placed after the name. BUtterfield 8 , so "BU-8" stands for the digits "2-8-8" and corresponded to a telephone exchange from Manhattan Upper East Side . In the film, Gloria mentions the name of the mediator several times, which supports her way of life between affairs and strange homes by transmitting messages and putting through calls. Her importance to Gloria becomes clear when she gives Weston a lighter with the engraved characters “BU 8”.
background
Before Elizabeth Taylor could take on the lucrative role in Cleopatra for a million dollars, she had to fulfill her contract with MGM , which brought her just 125,000 dollars. It was the last film that she was obliged to make due to her longstanding involvement with MGM. Taylor, who was married to Fisher at the time of production, had campaigned for her husband to get the role of Steve Carpenter, despite having little experience as an actor. Fisher only took part in the filming for a week, but was paid $ 100,000 at Taylor's pressure.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films rated Mann's film as a typical American "cinema novel with a 'psychoanalytic' problem view and tragic claim to confuse guilt with fate". Telephone Butterfield 8 was "[s] below average in terms of acting, with dialogues of hair-raising banality".
Awards
- 1961: Oscar for Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor; Nomination in the category Best Cinematography for Joseph Ruttenberg and Charles Harten.
- 1961: Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Drama for Elizabeth Taylor
- 1961: 2nd place each at the Laurel Awards in the categories of Best Actress in a Drama (Elizabeth Taylor) and Best Drama; 5th place in the category Best Supporting Actress (Dina Merrill)
German version
The German dubbed version was created in the MGM Synchronization Atelier, Berlin, under the dialogue direction by Ingeborg Grunewald .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Gloria Wandrous | Elizabeth Taylor | Dinah Hinz |
| Weston Liggett | Laurence Harvey | Heinz Dragon |
| Steve Carpenter | Eddie Fisher | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Emily Liggett | Dina Merrill | Eva Katharina Schultz |
| Bingham Smith | Jeffrey Lynn | Kurt Waitzmann |
| Happy | Kay Medford | Roma train |
| Dr. Tredman | George Voskovec | Alfred Balthoff |
literature
- John O'Hara : BUtterfield 8th novel (Original title: BUtterfield 8 ). German by Klaus Modick . Afterword by Richard Ford (translated by Martin Hielscher ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), Munich 2010, 331 pages, ISBN 978-3-423-13897-0 .
Web links
- Butterfield 8 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- BUtterfield 8 at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Telephone Butterfield 8th In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed April 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Cf. goldenglobes.org ( memento of the original of July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Telephone Butterfield 8. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 5, 2017 .
