“There was never another star like her. She was the idol of the German intelligentsia...She possessed a bittersweetness; she could be serene, and often downright clownish. She was graced with a delicate sense of humor...” (F. Luft, Kino 4). When German stage and film star Elisabeth Bergner emigrated to Great Britain in the early thirties, she made a number of films with her husband, director Paul Czinner, which elicited ecstatic praise from British critics and public alike. She continued her European stage career well into the seventies, and made an historic visit to the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1968.
