Some scattergun connections made during lunchtime
Here’s an interview with AW that’s long been on the great Powell and Pressburger site. Here’s a Wikipedia entry about Grock, the clown who was “a pupil” of Walbrook’s father (also Adolph), according to AW in the interview. So the clown fraternity will need to be investigated…and I’m not keen on clowns.
And in this interview he mentions “Ida Schuselka-Wohlbruck, a great-great-great (or so!) grandmother”, which leads to these auto (badly) translated Wikpedia pages here and here (NB ‘welfare Brueck’ is Wikitranslation-ese for Wohlbrück!)
Also, it seems that his parents lived in Italy, presumably escaping Nazis but not Fascists. I wonder what happened to them?
And at this point I run out of time.
More leads than the 101 Dalmatians, but it takes time to follow them all up. My German evening class this evening might help, when eventually I get past the ‘Ich heiße Chris’ stage.
