Very different from Alain Resnais' adaptation of the Henri Bernstein play (see July 24), Dreaming Lips was an English remake of Bergner's German triumph, Der Traeumende Mund, and the first film to win her international recognition. The story places Bergner at the center of a love triangle, caught between a boy-husband (Romney Brent) whom she loves, and the dashing, demanding, macho musician (Raymond Massey) with whom she is in love. In her book, 5001 Nights at the Movies, critic Pauline Kael reassesses Dreaming Lips: "That extraordinary chameleon Elisabeth Bergner...moves like a starved cat, talks on tiptoe, and ever so cleverly breaks your heart....This film is one of the best examples of a genre that has all but disappeared: the bittersweet conflict of desire versus responsibility-pure romance."