Gabriel Pascal
Gabriel Pascal ( June 4, 1891 in Arad, Austria - Hungary, now Romania, † July 6, 1954, New York, United States) was a Hungarian producer, director, screenwriter and actor who is particularly characterized by adaptations of works by George Bernard Shaw made a name.
Career
After presentation of his wife Valerie Pascal Pascal had no precise knowledge of its origin, but it could remember, with no families to be temporarily raised under " gypsies " after he had been taken away as a small child from a burning house. The only memory of his parents was, therefore, the voice of a woman who had called during the fire "Save Gabor ", also he remembered that he brought to his time with the gypsies in a house and there presented to him a woman as his mother had been, which had, however, denied this to him.
From an after showing Valerie "mysterious Jesuit " he was housed with seventeen years in a military school in the Hungarian Holics, this he should due to lack of inclination and aptitude have left back to the military profession, focusing instead on acting lessons, so first in Hamburg, where he the name Gabriel Pascal have enclosed as an artist name, and then in Vienna, where he was allegedly formed at the Burgtheater.
At the First World War, he participated as a cavalry officer shall in a hussar regiment, then tried in vain to Berlin working as an actor and have use of the said Jesuits finally attended an academy for agriculture in Copenhagen. During this time he was allegedly discovered by a film crew with Asta Nielsen and her husband Urban Gad for the silent film, initially remained in this team and then worked as a director, actor and producer in Italy. If you stay on the French Riviera, he wants to be then made by a random encounter for the first time acquainted with George Bernard Shaw, which he then managed to persuade later in London to work together despite of bad experiences with above analysis film projects once again agree to the filming of one of his plays and it even to participate as a screenwriter. The result, the film version of Pygmalion: The Novel of a Flower Girl ( 1938), which was followed by other, less successful films in collaboration with Shaw (Major Barbara, 1941 Caesar and Cleopatra, 1945), established the fame of Pascal in the international film, and the exchange of letters, which originated in the long cooperation with Shaw from the time of the first contract in 1935 to Shaw's death in 1950, has remained an important document for the Shaw - research because Shaw detailed therein, as usual, only in the exchange of letters with his Austrian translator Siegfried Trebitsch provides insights into his literary intentions and in his conception of the characters of his plays.