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Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 1099. Photo: Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), Berlin-Tempelhof. Romy Schneider in Scampolo (Alfred Weidenmann, 1958).
Romy Schneider (1938-1982) was one of the most beautiful and intelligent actors of her generation. Nearly 40 years after her death she still has an immense popular appeal.
In the German production Scampolo (Alfred Weidenmann, 1958), Romy starred as a young, poor orphan who lives on the Italian island Ischia. Scampolo works as a tourist guide and for a laundress (Elisabeth Flickenschildt). She falls in love with a handsome but poor architect (Paul Hubschmid) who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intercedes on his behalf with the minister (Viktor de Kowa) and helps him to make his dream come true. Scampolo (translation: remnant) was loosely based on a play by Dario Niccodemi. It was not the first film adaptation. In 1917 there was already an Italian silent film directed by Giuseppe Sterni with Margot Pellegrinetti as Scampolo. Silent film diva Carmen Boni played her also in a 1928 Italian production directed by Augusto Genina. This version has been recently rediscovered and restored by the Bologna cinematheque. Four years later Hans Steinhoff made a sound version in Germany starring Dolly Haas, Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße/Scampolo a Child of the Streets (1932). This time Scampolo has nowhere to live in Berlin and must sleep rough. Steinhoff also directed a French-language version, Un peu d'amour/A Bit of Love (1932), starring Madeleine Ozeray. In 1941 followed another Italian version, Scampolo (Nunzio Malasomma, 1941) with Lilia Silvi and in 1953 yet a new Italian adaptation Scampolo 53 (Giorgio Bianchi, 1953) starring Maria Fiori. The 1958 version with Romy Schneider was the last film adaptation, till now.
Scampolo was only the second film young idol Romy Schneider made after the hugely popular Sissi trilogy. The cast included well-known actors as Paul Hubschmid, Georg Thomalla, Eva Maria Meineke, Franca Parisi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Willy Millowitsch, Walter Rilla, and Viktor de Kowa, but Schneider was the heart of the film. Marcin Kukuczka at IMDb: "Romy Schneider is great! The fact that Scampolo was filmed just after the third part of Sissi is too significant not to be skipped. Romy was considered to fit best to 'royal roles' by a number of people. Partly, thanks to Scampolo, she proved that she was talented at multiple levels." The comedy was shot on Ischia Island in Italy with wonderful cinematography by Bruno Mondi, who had also shot the Sissi films. Mondi had already started in the silent era as a camera assistant for Fritz Lang's Der Müde Tod (1921). During World War II, he worked with director Veit Harlan on the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940). After the war, Mondi went on working at films without any problems and shot socialist-style re-education films in the Soviet zone like Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947) and Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte, 1949). StateofThings at IMDb: "Bruno Mondi is a luminous example for a brilliant and inventive cameraman and a frightening example for a perfect technician, not asking for the aim of his work."
Sources: James Travers (French Film Site), Filmreference.com, Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Originally shot this self-portrait to share on FB with the caption "oh, hey, hello from a planet far, far away." But close enough for binoculars, apparently.
I'm the kind of person to tell a complete stranger my life story knowing I will never see them again. I actually prefer that type of interaction when it comes to sharing my feelings. Flickr, you are my stranger.
I've been having trouble sleeping lately. Motherhood is stressful. More so when you're sleep deprived though your baby is kind enough to be sleeping through the night.
I quit my job back in December. It's been almost a year since my son was born and I've coped well with the transition. But there's times when la chinga is tough.
The internet became a thing when I was about 15 so I feel like my generation needs to have an online presence to feel alive. Self-portraiture is still a thing, even though I've read the personal essay is dead.
I haven't kept up with my writing or journal consistently for years, but I keep coming back to it for my sanity.
I've been considering deleting my FB AGAIN because it has become too much of a political platform. But perhaps that's just the world. Everybody seems to be wounded and crying about it online.
I feel ashamed for adding to the cyber drama but I guess if we're all screaming into the abyss I may as well let my voice be heard. I would do a portrait with a megaphone if I had one lying around.
My friend was mourning her involvement in architecture the other day and I reminded her that she is a high school teacher now... and I thought of how I mourn that I am not a writer despite the fact I have a creative writing degree.
I told my husband that I chose my degree based on the councelor's "don't fret" attitude about choosing a major: "People change their careers about 5 times in a lifetime." or however many.
Right now I'm mourning the fact that I'm not working outside the home. I get photo gigs and they trully are work with a crying baby at my feet. Como dije, es una chinga.
Y entiendo que hay chingas peores.
Anyway. For years I've felt like I've been losing myself despite also feeling like I've never found out my true calling. And it's been an existential crisis since I was like 13. I don't know why it is so important for me to be "true to myself" and why I think it would be sad if I wasn't. That being said, I think I am attuned to when I'm not being authentic and I don't think I've let myself be "authentic" for years.
It becomes worse when you become a parent. You're constantly in midst of strangers; be it at the library, the doctor's office, the grocery store. You're not really allowed to express your authentic self very often in public spaces, especially not if you're an introvert, and it is taking its toll.
The other day a coach tried to recruit me for the master's swim class at the natatorium on the premise that: "you wouldn't be swimming alone."
I PREFER doing things alone. I don't need a workout or shopping buddy. If anything, they will slow me down. Not because I'm always more athletic but because I feel I must "entertain" them instead of performing the task at hand. And people are draining. I was raised anti-social, and by golly, it seems I will DIE anti-social lol
But now I gotta think about the effect of my actions on my son. I saw a nice parenting title on Amazon: "How to Traumatize Your Children: 7 Proven Methods to Help You Screw Up Your Kids Deliberately and with Skill". I should buy it.
I realize when i wake up my thoughts will all seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But I feel like that's now an issue. The fact that I don't feel strongly about one particular cause. lol Like, everyone seems to be waving some protest sign and I'm still over here being 12 trying to figure out how I feel. [Insert eye roll.] I tell myself the world needs people like me. Not so much apathetic but able to see the opinion in things people take to heart as immovable TRUTHS. Will you quit it with the banners already? Maybe I'm missing a backbone. But I feel if everybody got a planet based on differences and opressions they would still find something to differ and fight about.
I'm not bragging but I cry for the state of the world more consistently than I write. And I don't know that I want to carry that weight. I got a kid to feed three times a day plus snacks!
Before I had him I would push self-destruct in a heartbeat! Now.. I would probably try to save children four-years and under lol. Let's see if their innocent nature can trully build a just and equal world.
And I realize suicide is the easy way out and not a solution at all. I was also not raised to problem solve. I don't want to pick up the latest political fad. I want to beleive in something but it all seems flawed. I need something that is pure and true. I've caught myself searching twice: Once in religion another in literature and I've been let down both times. I cannot idolize or place faith in imperfection. It doesn't seem worth it to me. As I've gotten older, I've started to respect our attempts at perfection... but idk, is that the end goal? I was influenced to think that it is.
I should read more so that I have more to go on than my pubescent opinion.
Speaking of puberty. If you're intending to have children, go ahead and wear a bikini to the beach or the pool the rest of the summer. Because your stomach may never be the same after you give birth. I'm mourning that too. A little too hard, I'd say. I looked about 3 months pregnant at the end of the day years before getting pregnant so Idk why I'm now surprised about my belly. I guess because now it's looking 3 months pregnant ALL DAY LOL Just--maybe it'll get better with the years but, I'm short, so, probably not. But I'm hoping.
I guess that's all the traumas I have for tonight. Thanks for listening.
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, no. 1116. Photo: Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), Berlin-Tempelhof. Wolfgang Wahl and Romy Schneider in Scampolo (Alfred Weidenmann, 1958).
Romy Schneider (1938-1982) was one of the most beautiful and intelligent actors of her generation. Nearly 40 years after her death she still has an immense popular appeal.
In the German production Scampolo (Alfred Weidenmann, 1958), Romy starred as a young, poor orphan who lives on the Italian island Ischia. Scampolo works as a tourist guide and for a laundress (Elisabeth Flickenschildt). She falls in love with a handsome but poor architect (Paul Hubschmid) who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intercedes on his behalf with the minister (Viktor de Kowa) and helps him to make his dream come true. Scampolo (translation: remnant) was loosely based on a play by Dario Niccodemi. It was not the first film adaptation. In 1917 there was already an Italian silent film directed by Giuseppe Sterni with Margot Pellegrinetti as Scampolo. Silent film diva Carmen Boni played her also in a 1928 Italian production directed by Augusto Genina. This version has been recently rediscovered and restored by the Bologna cinematheque. Four years later Hans Steinhoff made a sound version in Germany starring Dolly Haas, Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße/Scampolo a Child of the Streets (1932). This time Scampolo has nowhere to live in Berlin and must sleep rough. Steinhoff also directed a French-language version, Un peu d'amour/A Bit of Love (1932), starring Madeleine Ozeray. In 1941 followed another Italian version, Scampolo (Nunzio Malasomma, 1941) with Lilia Silvi and in 1953 yet a new Italian adaptation Scampolo 53 (Giorgio Bianchi, 1953) starring Maria Fiori. The 1958 version with Romy Schneider was the last film adaptation, till now.
Scampolo was only the second film young idol Romy Schneider made after the hugely popular Sissi trilogy. The cast included well-known actors as Paul Hubschmid, Georg Thomalla, Eva Maria Meineke, Franca Parisi, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Willy Millowitsch, Walter Rilla, and Viktor de Kowa, but Schneider was the heart of the film. Marcin Kukuczka at IMDb: "Romy Schneider is great! The fact that Scampolo was filmed just after the third part of Sissi is too significant not to be skipped. Romy was considered to fit best to 'royal roles' by a number of people. Partly, thanks to Scampolo, she proved that she was talented at multiple levels." The comedy was shot on Ischia Island in Italy with wonderful cinematography by Bruno Mondi, who had also shot the Sissi films. Mondi had already started in the silent era as a camera assistant for Fritz Lang's Der Müde Tod (1921). During World War II, he worked with director Veit Harlan on the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß (1940). After the war, Mondi went on working at films without any problems and shot socialist-style re-education films in the Soviet zone like Wozzeck (Georg C. Klaren, 1947) and Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte, 1949). StateofThings at IMDb: "Bruno Mondi is a luminous example for a brilliant and inventive cameraman and a frightening example for a perfect technician, not asking for the aim of his work."
Sources: James Travers (French Film Site), Filmreference.com, Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
365.16
Ah, many days it goes unspoken
But this desire never seems to go away
It's gonna take much more than
hope to bring you close
I think I'll pray
I hear you say you've got a lot to give up
And there is so much more this
heart of mine can take
If what you have to bring to
me is positive you send it
right away
Right away
I want to know what good love feels like
Good love, good love
I want a love that's sure to
stand the test of time
I want to know what good love feels like
Good love, good love
Morning, noon and night, forever all my life
Good love. good love
Good love, good love
There is a void that stands between us
And it seems it's getting harder to relate
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine
Life this way
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Visiting the "Opera About Town" event by the Opera Company of North Carolina at the library in Cameron Village, Raleigh.
Featured on WUNC Radio "The State of Things" as photo of the week for May 28, 2008.
Press conference of the exhibition The State of Things. From 18-10-2009 to 10-01-2010 at BOZAR, Brussels
SE Corner NC 97 and SR 1137; Stanhope Vicinity; private, visible from road
"Built as the seat of a plantation formed by Daniel Crenshaw, who operated a stage coach inn here on the Raleigh-Tarboro Road, this is one of the oldest houses in the neighborhood. It also served as a post office. The 2-story house features an unusual treatment of the engaged porch: the end bays at the second story are enclosed as sleeping rooms, and the open area between them is cordoned by a delicate sheaf-of-wheat balustrade. Several early out buildings survive."
Catherine W. Bishir & Michael T. Southern
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina
UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 1996
Served as Sunny South Post Office
Daniel Sanford Crenshaw
from 8/8/1853 to 12/11/1866
Marriage Record:
Martin, Signora M. of Franklin County, to Gen. Daniel S. Crenshaw of Forestville, Je. 10,
Franklin County. R.R. Je. 15, 1841.
Laura Leslie interviews Don Ravon and Sean Coon about the Dotmatrix Project on "The State of Things" for WUNC radio.
Some dandelions sprout near some Silos in southern Wake County, NC.
This photo was chosen as a WUNC "State of Things" photo of the week for the week beginning June 23, 2008.
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