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Hotel Imperial (1939 Film)
''Hotel Imperial'' is a 1939 American dramatic film directed by Robert Florey. It stars Isa Miranda and Ray Milland. The plot follows a 1917 play by the Hungarian writer Lajos Bíró: in the waning days of World War I, on the Russian-Austrian frontier, a young woman looking to avenge the suicide of her sister poses as a chambermaid in the Hotel Imperial. A Hungarian silent film was released in 1918, and Hotel Imperial (1927 film), an American version starring Pola Negri in 1927. The history of this production began in 1936, with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer in the lead roles, but Dietrich clashed repeatedly with director Henry Hathaway. Filming resumed with Margaret Sullavan, who broke her arm, necessitating yet another cast change. Four years after the release of this version, ''Five Graves to Cairo'' (1943) moved the setting ahead to World War II and featured Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. Milland had a near-fatal accident on the set. One scene called for him to lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Florey
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921. As a director, Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low-budget fillers for Paramount and Warner Brothers. His reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finish troubled projects, such as 1939's '' Hotel Imperial''. Florey directed more than 50 films, the best known likely being the Marx Brothers first feature, '' The Cocoanuts'' (1929). His 1932 foray into Universal-style horror, ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', is regarded by horro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
