I Am a Camera (1955)
July 21, 1955Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.
Julie Harris
Sally Bowles
Laurence Harvey
Christopher Isherwood
Shelley Winters
Natalia Landauer
Ron Randell
Clive Mortimer
Lea Seidl
Fräulein Schneider
Jean Gargoet
Pierre
Anton Diffring
Fritz Wendel
Ina De La Haye
Herr Landauer
Frederick Valk
Doctor
Tutte Lemkow
Electro-Therapist
Patrick McGoohan
Swedish Water Therapist
Stanley Maxted
Curtis B. Ryland
Henry Cornelius
Director
Julia Arnall
Model
John Van Druten
Writer
Harold Siddons
Editor at Party
Christopher Isherwood
Writer
John Collier
Writer
Philip Morant
Editor at Party
Jack Healy
Clive (uncredited)
Malcolm Arnold
Composer
Don Koll
Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Guy Green
Cinematographer
Clive Donner
Editor
Gareth Tandy
Boy Finding Sally's Shoe (uncredited)
Richard Wattis
Bespectacled Man at Book Launch (uncredited)
Clifford A. Pellow
Turk (uncredited)
John Woolf
Producer
Paul Dehn
Lyricist
Jack Clayton
Associate Producer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
James H. Ware
Assistant Director
Norman Warwick
Camera Operator
Leigh Aman
Production Manager
William Kellner
Art Direction
Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
W. H. Lindop
Sound Recordist
Ernest Gasser
Makeup Artist
Rahvis
Costume Designer
Ida Mills
Hairdresser
Ralph Maria Siegel
Original Music Composer
Erica Masters
Production Manager
E. Law
Sound Recordist
Daphne Frampton
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I Am a Camera is a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles.
Censors in both the United Kingdom and United States demanded considerable emendations to the film which led to significant deviations from the source material by Van Druten and Isherwood. Although critically unsuccessful upon its release, the film became a smash hit at the 1955 British box office. Long overshadowed by Cabaret, the 1966 stage and 1972 film adaptation of the same source material, contemporary critics have noted the historic interest of this earlier presentation.