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Uniform Title Lola Montès (Motion picture)
Title Lola Montès / Gamma-Film prèsente ; un film de Max Ophuls ; scenario de Max Ophuls ; adaptation de Annette Wademant et Max Ophuls ; dialogue de Jacques Natanson ; une co-production Gamma, Florida, Union Films ; producteur délégué, Albert Caraco
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 min.) : sound, color
Summary Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls's final film, Lola Montèsis at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle
Notes Title from title frames
Based on the novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955
This version produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Credits Production designer, Jean D'Eaubonne ; music by Georges Auric ; conductor, Jacques Météhen ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; production manager, Ralph Baum director of photography, Christian Matras
Cast Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henry Guisol, Lise Delamare, Paulette Dubost, Oskar Werner, Jean Galland, Will Quadflieg, Helena Manson, Germaine Delbat, Willy Eichberger, Jacques Fayet, Friedrich Domin, Werner Finck, Ivan Desny
Notes French dialogue with English subtitles
Subject Montez, Lola, 1818-1861 -- Drama
SUBJECT Montez, Lola, 1818-1861. fast (OCoLC)fst00001037
Subject Circus performers -- Drama
Courtesans -- Drama
Circus -- Drama
Showgirls -- Drama
Man-woman relationships -- Drama
Circus.
Circus performers.
Courtesans.
Man-woman relationships.
Showgirls.
United States.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Biographical films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Romance films.
Romance films.
Biographical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Films d'amour.
Films biographiques.
Adaptations cinématographiques.
Films de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Ophuls, Max, 1902-1957, film director.
Wademant, Annette, 1928-2017, screenwriter
Natanson, Jacques, 1901-1975, screenwriter.
Caraco, Albert, 1908-1997, film producer
Carol, Martine, 1920-1967, actor.
Ustinov, Peter, actor.
Walbrook, Anton, 1896-1967, actor
Guisol, Henri, 1904-1994, actor.
Delamare, Lise, actor.
Dubost, Paulette, actor.
Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984, actor.
Galland, Jean, 1887-1967, actor.
Quadflieg, Will, actor.
Manson, Héléna, 1898-1994, actor.
Delbat, Germaine, 1904-1988, actor.
Esmond, Carl, 1904-2004, actor.
Fayet, Jacques, actor.
Domin, Friedrich, 1902-1961, actor.
Finck, Werner, 1902-1978, actor.
Desny, Ivan, actor.
Matras, Christian, 1903-1977, director of photography.
Auric, Georges, 1899-1983, composer (expression)
Saint-Laurent, Cécil, 1919-2000. Lola Montès
Gamma Films (Firm)
Florida Films (Company)
Union Film (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.