Walking Down Broadway
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Walking Down Broadway / Hello Sister |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1933 |
| length | 62 minutes |
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| Director | Erich von Stroheim , anonymous, (supplemented by scenes by Raoul Walsh , Edwin Burke , Alfred L. Werker and others) |
| script | Erich von Stroheim , Leonard Spiegelglass and Geraldine Nomis based on a play by Dawn Powell |
| production | William Fox |
| camera | James Wong Howe |
| cut | Frank E. Hull |
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Walking Down Broadway / Hello Sister is an American feature film from 1933. It was the last film directed by Erich von Stroheim .
action
Lonely and unsightly Millie is jealous of her friend Peggy, who forms a happy couple with her boyfriend Jimmy. After Millie couldn't separate the couple due to her intrigues, she kills herself with gas.
background
Through his controversial and expensive working methods as a director, Erich von Stroheim had turned the studio managers of Paramount , MGM and Universal against him in Hollywood . Never before had the studios demoted a director in such a way who had made one of the most successful films of the year with The Merry Widow in 1925 . Stroheim has acted as an actor since 1930, mainly in rather insignificant films and was temporarily employed as a dramaturge at MGM .
Surprisingly, he got another offer to direct: The film adaptation of an unpublished play entitled Walking Down Broadway .
This time he worked for the studio of William Fox . This time Stroheim meticulously stuck to his budget and the shooting schedule. Nevertheless, his work met with complete incomprehension among the producers. Among other things, it was said that Stroheim's film, due to the explicit representation of human conflicts, was at best suitable for being shown "at a congress of psychoanalysts ". Scenes were removed, others re-shot - by Raoul Walsh and Alfred L. Werker , among others - and in the end little was left of Stroheim's material. The film historian Lotte Eisner even stated that there was nothing in this film that came from Stroheim.
Stroheim's name had disappeared from the opening credits . The title was changed to Hello Sister . From Walking Down Broadway one was B-movie made, took some of the few people notice and quickly disappeared into the archives. Stroheim's original version of Walking Down Broadway is considered lost . Erich von Stroheim never directed it again.
Others
Only in 2002, the play was walking down Broadway by Dawn Powell , which was the template for Stroheim's film in New York premiere ,
literature
- Weinberg, Herman G .: Stroheim: a pictorial record of his nine films , Dover Publications, NY, 1975, ISBN 0-4862-2723-5 (English)