Portrait of Halina DORSOWNA
Photography
Inventory number
2022.11.18.1.PH.PC.C1924.PLAuthor:
Leon FORBERT (Polish 1880-1938)Description
Press postcard representing a photograph of the cabaret star Halina DORSOWNA in her stage costume consisting of a low-cut dress with two ribbons at chest level, a pearl necklace wrapped 3 times around the neck and a top hat. The cabaret girl is made up as a typical Roaring Twenties style a small heart-shaped mouth, fine and long eyelashes and strongly marked eyebrows above and below with a short haircut.In this photo, Halina DORSOWNA looks like the German actress Marlene DIETRICH, in the role that revealed her to the public: Lola Fröhlich, from "The Blue Angel" film, released in 1930. However, it is the reverse. "The Blue Angel" film (Der blaue Engel) is the film adaptation of Heinrich MANN's novel "Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen" released in 1905, in which Professor Unrat falls in love with Rosa Fröhlich. When the director Josef von STERNBERG created the character of "Rosa", becoming "Lola", he was inspired by the singers who then reigned in small Berlin undergrown cabarets between the two wars, mixing homosexuals and transvestites than the birtish writter Christopher ISHERWOOD frequented, and were he will meet the British actress and singer who will serve as a model for the character of Sally Bowles performed by Liza MINNELLI in the American musical film "Cabaret" directed by Bob FOSSE.
Material
Analog photographyOrigin
circa 1924 Warsaw, PolandDimensions
Length : 9 cmHeight : 14 cm
Related people
Halina DORSOWNA (French, born Polish, Breslau 1908 - 1993 La Garenne-Colombes) (source)Leon FORBERT (Polish 1880-1938) (creator)