RCP Presents: ICONS SERIES
EPISODE 1: EMIL JANNINGS Best Actor [1927+1928]
Emil Jannings, original name Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, (born July 23, 1884, Rorschach, Switzerland-died January 2, 1950, Strobl, near Salzburg, Austria), is an internationally known German actor famous for his tragic roles in motion pictures.
Jannings was a versatile actor whose enormous emotional range was well-suited to an array of character roles. Although he occasionally lapsed into the unbridled "hamminess" that was characteristic of acting styles of the era, he was also capable of great subtlety and nuance, even in such grandiose roles as Mephistopheles in Faust (1926), wherein he projected inner rage and turmoil beneath a cool, cynical exterior. He excelled at portraying once-proud men forced to endure suffering or humiliation, and such roles (The Last Laugh, Variety, The Blue Angel, The Last Command) are the ones for which he is best remembered.
In 1929, the first year of the Academy Awards, Jannings won a Best Actor award for his performances in the American-made films The Way of All Flesh (1927, now lost), in which he played an embittered family man, and The Last Command (1928), in which he was an exiled Russian general reduced to playing bit parts in war films. (During the early years of the awards, actors could be nominated for multiple performances.) With the advent of sound in American cinema, Jannings was forced because of his thick accent to abandon his career in the United States. He continued to work in German films, but his support of the Nazi regime made him a pariah elsewhere in the world. He continues to be a subject of great controversy, though many of his detractors begrudgingly admit that he was one of the finest actors of his generation.
With the ICONS SERIES, RCP is dedicated to presenting award-winning performances from legendary performers in the classic film genre.
Each episode is a short video essay about the artistic and cultural impact many actors and actresses have made during The Golden Age of Hollywood [1927-1966.]
CITATION:
CONTRIBUTOR:
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
TITLE
Emil Jannings
PUBLISHER
Encyclopædia Britannica
DATE PUBLISHED
July 19, 2020
URL
www.britannica...
ACCESS DATE
November 05, 2020
FILM CITATION:
The Last Command, Dir. by Josef von Sternberg, perf. by Emil Jannings,
Paramount Pictures, 21 Jan. 1928. Internet Archive,
archive.org/de...
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - PART 1
24:47 - PART 2
48:21- PART 3
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