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Berlin & Beyond - Hollywood speaks German
Date From January 19, 2009 3:30 PM
Until January 19, 2009 5:10 PM
 
Location
Castro Theatre
429 Castro & Market
San Francisco, CA 94114
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Info Line 415-263-8760
Website http://www.berlinandbeyond.com
 
Contact Berlin & Beyond
530 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

415-263-8760
tim.schnettler@sanfrancisco.goethe.org
 
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HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS GERMAN

By 1929, new technologies made talkies possible, but dubbing films into another language proved
to be a still insurmountable technological challenge. To make films available to a wider audience,
the only feasible option was to reshoot different language versions. From 1930 through 1932, all major
Hollywood studios shot films in German. Famous German actors such as Heinrich George, Paul Morgan,
and Camilla Horn came to shoot on location in Hollywood, and many German-speaking actors already
in Hollywood were often chosen, such as Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, and Marion Lessing. A
number of famous American actors, such as Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Buster Keaton were required to
learn German phonetics. Parallel to this development, many German actors were filmed speaking English,
as evidenced by this years Berlin & Beyonds classic feature THE BLUE ANGEL.
Stefan Droessler describes the situation in the different studios and shows excerpts of a dozen movies
which have been neglected by film studies.
   
   
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