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I Am a Camera

Year:

1955

Duration:

USA:98 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Henry Cornelius

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1955-07-21

Cast

Actor

Character

Anton Diffring

I Am a Camera

Julie Harris

Sally Bowles

Laurence Harvey

Christopher Isherwood

Shelley Winters

Natalia Landauer

Ron Randell

Clive

Lea Seidl

Fräulein Schneider

Ina De La Haye

Herr Landauer

Jean Gargoet

Pierre

Stanley Maxted

Curtis B. Ryland, Editor

Alexis Bobrinskoy

Proprietor (Troika)

André Mikhelson

Head Waiter (Troika)

Frederick Valk

Doctor

Tutte Lemkow

Electro-Therapist

Patrick McGoohan

Swedish Water Therapist

Julia Arnall

Model

Zoe Newton

Cigarette Girl

David Kossoff

Minor Role

Paddy Smith

Minor Role

Bill Brandon

Minor Role

Ann Elsdon

Minor Role

Stanley Morrell

Minor Role

Bill Billington

Minor Role

Anita Douglas

Minor Role

Charles Saynor

Minor Role

Henry Purvis

Minor Role

Geoffrey Dunn

Minor Role

Peter Prowse

Minor Role

Stan Bernard

Himself - Head of Stan Bernard Trio

Harold Siddons

Editor at Party

William Adams

Old Doctor (uncredited)

Charles Andre

Waiter (uncredited)

Jack Arrow

Troika Doorman (uncredited)

Anthony Bryant

Young Boy (uncredited)

Janet Coats

Young Girl (uncredited)

Lynn Courtney

Young Girl (uncredited)

Jacqueline Cox

Young Girl (uncredited)

Vincent Edward

Nazi Orator (uncredited)

George Eugeniou

Clive's Party Guest (uncredited)

Victor Fairley

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Janice Field

Young Girl (uncredited)

Rodney Goodall

Young Boy (uncredited)

Mandy Harper

Little Girl (uncredited)

Jack Healy

Clive (uncredited)

Jan Holden

Clive's Party Guest (uncredited)

Don Koll

Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

Janet May

Tart (uncredited)

Charles McDaniel

Reservation Clerk (uncredited)

Philip Morant

Editor at Party (uncredited)

Charles Mosconi

Second Man (uncredited)

Arthur Mullard

Nazi Handing Out 'Der Angriff' (uncredited)

Carol Olver

Young Girl (uncredited)

Clifford A. Pellow

Turk (uncredited)

Sid Raymond

First Man (uncredited)

George Ricarde

Clive's Party Guest (uncredited)

Barry Shawzin

Nightclub Chef with Pig (uncredited)

Frank Singuineau

Clive's Party Guest (uncredited)

Keith Smith

El Dorado Patron (uncredited)

Emile Stemmler

Café Waiter (uncredited)

Gareth Tandy

Boy Finding Sally's Shoe (uncredited)

Stan Tracey

Nightclub Pianist (uncredited)

Richard Wattis

Bespectacled Man at Book Launch (uncredited)

Angela White

Little Girl (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

In 1955 the movie received a "Condemned" rating - the lowest possible - by the Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic organization that passed moral judgments on films between 1933 and 1965. Although this rating was very rare, it was also applied to "Psycho", "Some Like It Hot" and "Breathless."

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The original Broadway production of "I am a Camera" by John Van Druten opened on November 28, 1951 at the Empire Theater and ran for 214 performances. The play was based on "The Berlin Stories" by Christopher Isherwood and was later developed by Fred Ebb and John Kander as the musical "Cabarat".

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Marian Winters won the 1952 Tony Award (New York City) for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "I Am A Camera" in the role of Natalia Landauer.

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Goofs

While most of film is a flashback set in early Thirties, all of the costumes and hairstyles are straight out of the early Fifties.

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Shelley Winters' name is misspelled "Shelly" in the opening credits.

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In the nightclub on New Year's Eve, the drummer does a drum roll and then a cymbal is heard without the drummer hitting the cymbal.

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