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13 June 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
No one believed they could last so long...Plot:
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
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Touching story of a thirty-year relationship that outlasted many Hollywood unions... more (8 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| W.H. Auden | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Don Bachardy | ... | Himself - Narrator (voice) | |
| Ted Bachardy | ... | Himself | |
| James Berg | ... | Himself (as Jim Berg) | |
| John Boorman | ... | Himself | |
| Paul Bowles | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Katherine Bucknell | ... | Herself | |
| Leslie Caron | ... | Herself | |
| Eduardo Correia | ... | Ahmed | |
| E.M. Forster | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Chris Freman | ... | Himself | |
| Charlie Gordon | ... | First Dinner Guest | |
| Kenneth Grimes | ... | Paul Bowles (as Ken Grimes) | |
| Sara S. Hodson | ... | Herself | |
| Evelyn Hooker | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Aldous Huxley | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Christopher Isherwood | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Dan Kael | ... | Model | |
| Matt Kelling | ... | Ted Bachardy | |
| Burt Lancaster | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Jack Larson | ... | Himself | |
| Herbert Lom | ... | Himself | |
| Anna Magnani | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Mike Makepeace | ... | Model | |
| James Malloy | ... | Second Dinner Guest (as Jim Malloy) | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Liza Minnelli | ... | Herself | |
| Christopher Murray | ... | Himself | |
| Michael Norwood | ... | Don Bachardy | |
| Marisa Pavan | ... | Herself | |
| Swami Prabhavananda | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Shayn Scott | ... | Christopher Isherwood | |
| Dodie Smith | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
| Igor Stravinsky | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Gloria Stuart | ... | Herself | |
| James White | ... | Himself (as James P. White) | |
| Tennessee Williams | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Stefan Wills | ... | Model | |
| Michael York | ... | Himself - Narrator |
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I stumbled upon this documentary on the Sundance Channel and the name Don Bachardy sounded familiar to me so I began watching. Then I realized that he was the artist who authored a book called "Stars In His Eyes" that dealt with many famous film personalities that posed for him. Each actor/actress had their portrait sketched and he wrote interesting details about the experience of setting up these meetings and how the sittings went.
So I watched, and discovered that he was Christopher Irsherwood's lover since he was a youth, meeting the writer when he was an unformed adolescent and quickly becoming his lifelong companion. It's a touching documentary, detailing the closeness of their relationship which began in the Hollywood of the 1950s at a time when discretion had to be uppermost in the minds of anyone contemplating a same sex relationship.
Bachardy was fascinated by the many well-known people that Irsherwood's associations included--everyone from Montgomery Clift to Julie Harris to Leslie Caron--and quickly became a part of that world when Irsherwood sponsored his education as an artist. Later, he would be doing portraits of these famous people and have his own opening at a gallery.
But the story deals mainly with the intensity of their close relationship over the years despite some difficulties due to their age difference. However, I found some of Bachardy's choices rather morbid, such as the endless fascination with sketching the dying partner during his final months, again and again.
Bachardy himself does much of the narration and ends by saying that he's reading Irsherwood's diary from the back toward the beginning because he can't wait to get to the part where they first meet.
Make of it what you will--it's all there for the viewer to ponder.