tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897554020551470090.post6738206523569565379..comments2024-02-14T19:25:38.935+01:00Comments on Trond Norén Isaksen: At the road’s end: Jean Simmons (1929-2010), actress who played DésiréeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897554020551470090.post-22139524738867507352012-04-13T21:03:23.628+02:002012-04-13T21:03:23.628+02:00Yes, it is a very odd film. And the only things wh...Yes, it is a very odd film. And the only things which happen in the film which really happened, were that Désirée was engaged to Napoléon, that she married Bernadotte and that she became Crown Princess of Sweden. Everything else is fiction, and nothing of this happened in the way it is portrayed in the film. But obviously many think they know everything about Queen Desideria because they have seen the film decades ago - such is the power of film.Trond Norén Isaksenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15744875538993319059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897554020551470090.post-18659865541857555662012-04-13T15:11:12.203+02:002012-04-13T15:11:12.203+02:00Dear Trond, watching this film this Easter was a s...Dear Trond, watching this film this Easter was a strange experience. Noone but Marlon Brando does a descent work, he is is mesmerizing. I saw if after the five hour long "Napoleon" with Christian Clavier.... True or not, Brando was high above almost anything. It is said that he did not take his role seriously at all, but compared to Michael Rennie´s JB Bernadotte, Merle Oberon´s Joséphine.... <br />I found this in some American obituary: <br />- While playing the title character in "Desiree", the mistress [SIC] of Brando's Napoleon, she was so in awe of the actor that "I was sort of forgetting what I was supposed to do," quoted from an interview in the Union-Tribune, 1990. I really think so, yes...<br />Keep up your good work with the blog. Thanks to you I start to read Gabriel Girod de ´Ain "Désirée Bernadotte".<br />:)<br /><br />AnitaK, NorwayAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13197246267477976396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897554020551470090.post-17199362059317623462012-04-13T15:10:32.152+02:002012-04-13T15:10:32.152+02:00Dear Trond, watching this film this Easter was a s...Dear Trond, watching this film this Easter was a strange experience. Noone but Marlon Brando does a descent work, he is is mesmerizing. I saw if after the five hour long "Napoleon" with Christian Clavier.... True or not, Brando was high above almost anything. It is said that he did not take his role seriously at all, but compared to Michael Rennie´s JB Bernadotte, Merle Oberon´s Joséphine.... <br />I found this in some American obituary: <br />- While playing the title character in "Desiree", the mistress [SIC] of Brando's Napoleon, she was so in awe of the actor that "I was sort of forgetting what I was supposed to do," quoted from an interview in the Union-Tribune, 1990. I really think so, yes...<br />Keep up your good work with the blog. Thanks to you I start to read Gabriel Girod de ´Ain "Désirée Bernadotte".<br />:)<br /><br />AnitaK, NorwayAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13197246267477976396noreply@blogger.com