8/3/17

ANTON WALBROOK TEA SALON

 PRESENTS
ANTON WALBROOK TEA SALON  
 AUGUST 9TH
 5PM 
SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM
 $10 COVER 
PREPAY RESERVATIONS GAURANTEES SEAT
 -ENJOY- 
HAND-BLENDED TEA
 CAKES & DAINTIES
 VIEW EROTIC ART 
ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS 
RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO
  TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
 1421 LAVETA TERRACE
 ECHO PARK, CA 90026 
ANTON WALBROOK
(19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967) 
was born in Vienna, Austria, as Adolf Wohlbrück.
He was descended from ten generations of actors, though his father broke with tradition and was a circus clown. Walbrook studied with the director Max Reinhardt and built up a career in Austrian theatre and cinema.
In 1936, he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational The Soldier and the Lady (1937). Instead of returning to Austria, Walbrook, who was gay and classified under the Nuremberg Laws as "half-Jewish" (his mother was Jewish), settled in England and continued working as a film actor, making a speciality of playing continental Europeans.
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox cast him as Prince Albert in Victoria the Great (1937) and Walbrook also appeared in the sequel, Sixty Glorious Years the following year. He was in director Thorold Dickinson's version of Gaslight (1940), in the role played by Charles Boyerin the later Hollywood remake. In Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a romantic melodrama, he was a Polish pianist torn over whether to return home. For the Powell and Pressburger team in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) he played the role of the dashing, intense "good German" officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, and the tyrannical impresario Lermontov in The Red Shoes (1948). 
His Red Shoes co-star Moira Shearer recalled Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone. He retired from films at the end of the 1950s and in later years appeared on the European stage and television.
Walbrook died of a heart attack in GaratshausenBavariaGermany in 1967. His ashes were interred in the churchyard of St. John's Church, Hampstead, London, as he had wished in his testament. 


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