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Playing For Time (film)
''Playing for Time'' is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon's autobiography ''The Musicians of Auschwitz''. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon. ''Playing for Time'' was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors. The film was later adapted as a play by Miller. This was the last film of director Daniel Mann. Parts of the film were directed by Joseph Sargent, but only Mann was credited as director. Plot Fania Fénelon, a French Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II. After having their belongings and clothes taken and their heads shaved, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp. Fénelon is recognized as being a famous musician and she finds that she will be able to avoid hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of ' in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy ''As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Orchestra Of Auschwitz
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz (''Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz''; lit. "Girls' Orchestra of Auschwitz") was formed by order of the SS in 1943, during the Holocaust, in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Active for 19 months—from April 1943 until October 1944—the orchestra consisted of mostly young female Jewish and Slavic prisoners, of varying nationalities, who would rehearse for up to ten hours a day to play music regarded as helpful in the daily running of the camp. They also held a concert every Sunday for the SS. A member of the orchestra, Fania Fénelon, published her experiences as an autobiography, ''Sursis pour l'orchestre'' (1976), which appeared in English as ''Playing for Time'' (1977). First published in English as The book was the basis of a television film of the same name in 1980, written by Arthur Miller. Formation The orchestra was formed in April 1943 by ''SS-Oberaufseherin'' Maria Mandl, supervisor of the wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress. Biography Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the daughter of Karin Emilia Therese (née Dymling) and Axel Torsten Lindfors. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros., and began working in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 100 films, including ''Night Unto Night'', ''No Sad Songs for Me'', ''Dark City (1950 film), Dark City'', ''The Halliday Brand'', ''King of Kings (1961 film), King of Kings'', ''An Affair of the Skin'', ''Creepshow'', ''The Sure Thing'', and ''Stargate (film), Stargate''. She appeared with actors including Ronald Reagan, Jeffrey Hunter, Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Lizabeth Scott, and Errol Flynn. In 1952, she appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Mandel
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian '' SS- Helferin'' (" SS helper") known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners. She was executed for war crimes. Life Mandl was born in Münzkirchen, Upper Austria, then part of Austria-Hungary, the daughter of a shoemaker. Camp work After the ''Anschluss'' by Nazi Germany, Mandl moved to Munich, and on 15 October 1938 joined the camp staff at Lichtenburg, an early Nazi concentration camp in the Province of Saxony, as an '' Aufseherin'', and worked with fifty other SS women. On 15 May 1939, along with other guards and prisoners, Mandl was sent to the newly opened Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. She soon impressed her superiors and, after she had joined the Nazi Party on 1 April 1941, was elevated to the rank of a ''SS-Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Knight
Shirley Knight Hopkins (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles. She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: for '' The Dark at the Top of the Stairs'' (1960) and ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' (1962). In the 1960s, she had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films such as '' The Couch'' (1962), ''House of Women'' (1962), ''The Group'' (1966), ''The Counterfeit Killer'' (1968), and ''The Rain People'' (1969). She received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film '' Dutchman'' (1966). In 1976, Knight won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in ''Kennedy's Children'', a play by Robert Patrick. In later years, she played supporting roles in many films, including '' Endles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Levine
Anna Thomson is an American actress known professionally as Anna Levine. She was also credited as Anna Levine Thompson and Anna Thomson. Thomson was orphaned at an early age and raised by her adoptive parents in New York City and France. She trained as a ballet dancer before becoming an actress. She appeared in supporting roles in films such as '' Heaven's Gate'', ''Desperately Seeking Susan'', ''The Crow'' and ''Unforgiven''. She had also been known for her work in several of director Amos Kollek's films, such as '' Sue Lost in Manhattan'' and ''Fast Food Fast Women'', which gained her cult figure status in France. In television, she played the role of Anna Rostov on ''The Colbys'', as well as appearing on ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' and the HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Lee
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television and film roles, but was best known for playing Mr. Hooper, the original store proprietor of the eponymous Hooper's Store. He was one of the four original human characters on ''Sesame Street'', from the show's debut in November 1969 until his death on December 7, 1982 at the age of 74. Early career Lee was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. His father, a bookbinder, lost his job due to economic changes. Will Lee came to adulthood during the Great Depression. He worked odd jobs in New York City and absorbed the intellectual atmosphere of Greenwich Village, an enclave of avant-garde culture where small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater throve. He began his career as a character actor on stage. He was a member of the Group Theater in the 1930s and appeared in '' Johnny Johnson'', ''Night Music'', ''Boy Meets Girl'', ''The Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verna Bloom
Verna Frances Bloom (August 7, 1938 – January 9, 2019) was an American actress. Career On Broadway, Bloom portrayed Charlotte Corday in '' The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'' (1967) and Blanche Morton in ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' (1983). She made her film debut in ''Medium Cool'', and then co-starred in Clint Eastwood's 1973 film, ''High Plains Drifter'' and in the 1974 made-for-TV movie '' Where Have All The People Gone?'' with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan. Bloom also had roles in more than 30 films and television episodes beginning the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of Jesus, in '' The Last Temptation of Christ'' in 1988 and Marion Wormer in ''Animal House'' in 1978. Personal life and death Bloom was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and attended the School of Fine Arts at Boston University, graduating with a BFA in 1959. She also studied at the HB S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Berenson
Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson (born February 15, 1947) is an American actress and model. She appeared on the front covers of ''Vogue'' and ''Time'', and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Natalia Landauer in the 1972 film ''Cabaret''. The role also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. Her other film appearances include ''Death in Venice'' (1971), ''Barry Lyndon'' (1975), '' S.O.B.'' (1981) and '' I Am Love'' (2009). In 2001, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of ''Design for Living''. Early life Childhood Berenson was born in New York City, the elder of two daughters. Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was ''Valvrojenski''. Her mother was Maria-Luisa Yvonne "Gogo" Radha de Wendt Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.Elsa Schiaparelli, ''Shoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Bartlett
Robin Bartlett (born April 22, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in two NBC sitcoms ''The Powers That Be'' and ''Mad About You''. Career She appeared in the short-lived series ''The Powers That Be''. She played the lesbian sister of a filmmaker for ''Mad About You'' and a television producer in ''Series''. She played a teacher in each films, '' Lean on Me'' and '' If Looks Could Kill''. She played the drug rehab roommate for '' Postcards from the Edge''. In addition, she played the dean of a private school in an episode ("The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial") of the HBO series '' Curb Your Enthusiasm''. In June 2010, it was announced Barlett would play Hannah Pitt in Signature Theatre Company's 20th-anniversary production of Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America.'' She played Bridget Kearns in ''Shutter Island'' in 2010. In 2013, she portrayed Miranda Crump in ''American Horror Story''s second season, ''Asylum'', and later that year returned for the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress. She is a 15-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom ''Cybill'' (1995–1998). Baranski has received further critical acclaim for her performance as Diane Lockhart in the legal drama series ''The Good Wife'' (2009–2016) and its spin-off series ''The Good Fight'' (2017–2022). Baranski has appeared in several television films, including ''To Dance with the White Dog'' (1993), ''Eloise at the Plaza'' and ''Eloise at Christmastime'' (both 2003), and '' Who Is Simon Miller?'' (2011). Her major Broadway credits include ''Hide and Seek'' (1980), ''Hurlyburly'' (1984), ''The House of Blue Leaves'' (1986), ''Nick & Nora'' (1991), and '' Boeing Boeing'' (2008). Baranski has also appeared in numerous films, such as '' Reversal of Fortune'' (1990), ''The Birdcage'' (1996), ''Cruel Intentions'' (1999), ''How t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mala Zimetbaum
Malka Zimetbaum, also known as "Mala" Zimetbaum or "Mala the Belgian" (26 January 1918 – 15 September 1944), was a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the resistance she displayed at her execution following her being recaptured. She was the first woman to escape from Auschwitz. Early life and deportation Mala Zimetbaum was born in Brzesko, Poland in 1918, the youngest of five children to Pinhas and Chaya Zimetbaum. At age ten in 1928, she relocated with her family to Antwerp, Belgium. In school as a child, she excelled in mathematics and was fluent in several languages. She left school to work in a diamond factory after her father became blind. At age 24, she was either captured by Germans on July 22, 1942 or arrested during the third Antwerp raid of 11–12 September 1942. She was first sent to the Dossin Barracks ''sammellager'' in the Mechelen transit camp. Then on 15 September 1942 she was put aboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
