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I Am a Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories. The title is a quotation taken from the novel's first page: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
- November 28, 1951
- A room in Fraulein Schneider's flat in Berlin 1930
- Empire Theatre, New York City
- John Van Druten, Adapted from the Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles.
- 21 July 1955
- Malcolm Arnold
- £144,666 (UK)
- John Woolf
I Am a Camera: Directed by Henry Cornelius. With Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell. In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Henry Cornelius
- 1955-07-21
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Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris (Laurence Harvey), an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles (Julie Harris) and an unusual...
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- Henry Cornelius
- Comedy, Drama
- Julie Harris
Duration. 1h 39m. Sound. Mono. Color. Black and White. In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in Berlin, meets the vivacious, penniless singer Sally Bowles. They develop a platonic relationship while Sally has a wild time spending other peoples money.
- Henry Cornelius
- Julie Harris
I Am a Camera is a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars.
Henry Cornelius. Director. Christopher Isherwood. Novel. John Collier. Screenplay. Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born.
