oldhollywood: Interviewer: Her performance of the blind girl in Jeanne Ney is one of her most striking. I don’t feel Brigitte Helm is acting. I feel she is in a trance. That she has the power to throw herself into a trance and to move and speak and live a life quite outside her own experience. G.W. Pabst: Ah, you see. You have it. Do you know the scene when she walks with Jeanne Ney in the streets of Paris, she was almost killed. The actor driving the taxi was not a driver really, but had had to learn. He was not very sure of his steering. Brigitte Helm walked right in front of him. I had to run before the camera to save her. Do you know why? She was blind. She simply did not see it. -excerpted from Close Up magazine interview (March 1929) 

oldhollywood:

Interviewer: Her performance of the blind girl in Jeanne Ney is one of her most striking. I don’t feel Brigitte Helm is acting. I feel she is in a trance. That she has the power to throw herself into a trance and to move and speak and live a life quite outside her own experience.

G.W. Pabst: Ah, you see. You have it. Do you know the scene when she walks with Jeanne Ney in the streets of Paris, she was almost killed. The actor driving the taxi was not a driver really, but had had to learn. He was not very sure of his steering.

Brigitte Helm walked right in front of him. I had to run before the camera to save her. Do you know why? She was blind. She simply did not see it.

-excerpted from Close Up magazine interview (March 1929) 

  1. Date Posted Icon 26th July 2012
  2. Reblogged Icon Reblogged From hoodoothatvoodoo
  3. Notes Icon Notes: 749
  1. headfullofid reblogged this from oldhollywood
  2. pornographers-handbook reblogged this from hoodoothatvoodoo
  3. jazzstep reblogged this from oldhollywood
  4. justlook-at-me reblogged this from oldhollywood
  5. kligutz reblogged this from oldhollywood
  6. poesiasomosdos reblogged this from oldhollywood
  7. mamonerias reblogged this from oldhollywood
  8. psychiatricasylum reblogged this from oldhollywood
  9. sarinhatwilight reblogged this from oldhollywood
  10. contemporary--vintage reblogged this from amospoe
  11. amospoe reblogged this from adrianabee and added:
    where there’s smoke
  12. mercess reblogged this from illuminatum
  13. howitfeltlike reblogged this from illuminatum
  14. war-came-from-the-minds-of-men reblogged this from illuminatum
  15. redlips50spinup reblogged this from blanklights
  16. ataraxique reblogged this from illuminatum
  17. blanklights reblogged this from illuminatum
  18. wishbones-and-moonstones reblogged this from illuminatum
  19. hell-this-in-my-head reblogged this from illuminatum
  20. hopeless-rabbit reblogged this from illuminatum
  21. holiheladosh reblogged this from illuminatum
  22. illuminatum reblogged this from oldhollywood
  23. ciscodelatierra reblogged this from oldhollywood
  24. elliefredricksen-up reblogged this from wishtoremain
  25. reptilia-plaster-caster reblogged this from drakecaperton
  26. les-baisers-voles reblogged this from oldhollywood and added:
    hollywood
  27. audreymarilynandparis reblogged this from oldhollywood
  28. little-khajiit reblogged this from oldhollywood
  29. themusicisthereason reblogged this from oldhollywood
  30. americandreamsdrowningingin reblogged this from stephhr
  31. mermanonfire reblogged this from tenderspear
  32. gelid-kisses reblogged this from oldhollywood
  33. leapingfallingcrashing reblogged this from oldhollywood
  34. greylungpoetry reblogged this from oldhollywood
  35. pearlsforpistols reblogged this from oldhollywood