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Performance · S02E01

Tales From Hollywood

Summary

Among the residents of Los Angeles during the 1940s were Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and, according to this play, the Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon Von Horvath, our guide to the sun-soaked boulevards and the bizarre cultural collisions of wartime Hollywood.

Guest stars

  • Jeremy Irons as Odon Von Horvath
  • Alec Guinness as Heinrich Mann
  • Elizabeth McGovern as Helen Schwartz
  • Charles Durning as Charles F. Money
  • Carsten Nørgaard as Young Man
  • Robin Bailey as Thomas Mann
  • Sinéad Cusack as Nelly Mann
  • Alison Fiske as Salka Viertel
  • Jan Chappell as Marta Feuchtwanger
  • Jack Shepherd as Bertolt Brecht