Vintage Vienna ; Anthony Looch Sees Classic Movies Brought to Life in Austria's Capital
Daily Post › December 26, 2009
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ALTHOUGH it has played a vital and glorious role in the history of Europe for four centuries, the elegant city of Vienna has never been as easy to visit as it is now. I have yearned to go there, and the 60th anniversary of The Third Man, the famous Carol Reed film starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime, was an obvious time to do so.
I love vintage movies, and never fail to be amazed by the large number of 1920s and '30s stage operettas and films that glamorised Vienna, when it was capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire that crumbled in 1918.See the full content of this document
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Vintage Vienna ; Anthony Looch Sees Classic Movies Brought to Life in Austria's Capital
The most evocative of these was Goodnight Vienna, a 1932 film starring Anna Neagle and Jack Buchanan. But night really did fall on Vienna six years later, when Hitler annexed Austria in 1938 to bring Nazi domination to the city.
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