![]() Isherwood himself was impressed by the actress. The title is taken from the opening line of the novel, which runs, "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." When it bowed on Broadway, it was one of Van Druten's biggest successes and helped make its Sally Bowles, Julie Harris, a star. He called it I Am a Camera and focused on the character of Sally, just one of many figures in Isherwood's stories. The novel was first adapted for the stage by British playwright John Van Druten. But the characters he created, including the English #cabaret singer Sally Bowles (the surname was borrowed from novelist Paul Bowles), have had a much more vibrant and public life on stage than they have on the page. ![]() ![]() Well, not the book itself, exactly, though "Goodbye to Berlin" remains in print and is certainly still read. Little did novelist Christopher Isherwood know when he published his 1939 novella "Goodbye to Berlin" - a semi-autobiographical account of his own time in Berlin in the 1930s - what an afterlife the book would have. ![]()
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