Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Stage and screen actress, celebrated for her iconic style and film performances.
On the island
Eight records
Le Sacre du PrintempsFavourite
New York Philharmonic conducted by Igor Stravinsky
I quickly thought of what I love best and it's rather difficult for me because at the moment I'm not at home. Because when I'm at home it's easier to recollect and look at things that I have and that I like. So I quickly had to think and the first thing that came to my mind was naturally Stravinsky who is one of the great idols of my life. Satre du Planton, which I have always had with me. I never travel without it.
There's Always Something to Remind Me
I love very much I record the bird crack has written the song for and the arrangement. And it's called There's Always Something to Remind Me. And it's sung by Sandy Shaw. And Bert Bafferak is your musical director, isn't it? Yes, he's not only my musical director, but he is the arranger naturally, the conductor here at the queen. And he's also a great friend of mine and he's also an absolutely wonderful man.
Well, Lister has always been my great God. I love everything he plays naturally. But I love most Schumann. Schubert Barnes. But you say I can't take that many records to the island, so I can't choose one. Let's put them all in a bus. Well let's choose Beethoven then. Viadis La Brichte playing Beethoven's Appazionato Sonata.
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Well, let's do what they told you. Until the third? Conducted by Toscanini.
But there's a worker out of it. It's called Message to Master. And Adam's Face made it and it's a wonderful song. Message to Martha Zung by Adam Faith.
New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Well record number seven would be Valve. A very Part of Rabel's La Vas, played once again by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
L'Enfant et les sortilèges: Duet of the Cats
Now number eight I think should be La Fonde Circulation. The cat duets from Rabel's L'Enfoy Sautilège, conducted by Lauren Marcel.
In conversation
Presenter asks
4:58What was it your first ambition to be?
Well, I don't think I had any ambition even then. I don't have any now. My ambition or if you can call it that, my education was to be a useful human being and that's what I've tried to be.
Presenter asks
8:02Had you any inkling when you made this film [The Blue Angel] that it was going to turn out to be one of the great films of the time?
No, no, nobody knew this, not even the... No, no, no, nobody knew... I don't think anybody knows when they're making a masterpiece.
Presenter asks
9:46Out of all those Hollywood films, which ones do you look back on with the most affection?
Well, I cannot say that I look at anyone with affection. Because making films is a very difficult task, particularly for me, because I always had to play parts that had nothing to do with me at all. And it was a... I'm not an actress in that sense of the word I am. Don't like challenges at all. I was thrown into this business and I tried to do my best and it was hard work all along the line.
The keepsakes
The luxury
a bunch of white heather and a pair of ballet shoes from the Bolshoi Ballet School
I take it with me where I go. It's a little bunch of white heather that I received in Edinburgh. ... And then I repeat all the shoes that I received in Moscow. The children from the Borshau Ballet School gave it to me. And I have those with me all the time and I probably will grab them and take them.
Presenter asks
11:24This must have been a heartbreaking time for you with your natural affection for your own people in the back of your mind.
No, it was not. It was not a heartbreaking time. I I did what I thought was right and I did the best I could.
Presenter asks
13:18What must a song have for you to choose in?
Well, I think the lyrics matter most because as I'm not a singer I need the words very much to give expression to the song.
Presenter asks
14:37But isn't there anything that you want, anywhere you want to play, that you want to direct? Do you want to create in any way? You're just happy with the pattern that it is.
Well, I'm very happy here. In London at the Queen's and I wish it could last forever, but it doesn't. And I loved Edinburgh too. I want to say this again and again and again. I loved Edinburgh.
“I'm frightened of nothing.”
“I told him that and I told him I loved Moose the cot where the girl runs away from the man in the woods and he looked at me and he said, I've never written any such thing and I said, but that's how the music sounds and he said, well, if it sounds like that to you, that's fine, but that's not at all what I meant.”
“I gave up the violin, much to the distress of my mother, because She had thought that I would be a violinist, but even then I hated doing things in halves.”
“I don't think anybody knows when they're making a masterpiece.”
“I loved Edinburgh too. I want to say this again and again and again. I loved Edinburgh.”