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Anastasia Overview:

Anastasia (1956) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Buddy Adler.

The film was based on the play of the same name written by Marcelle Maurette performed at the Lyceum Theatre, NY from Dec 29, 1954 - Sep 24, 1955.

SYNOPSIS

A group of Russian exiles in Paris conspire to present a young woman with amnesia as Anastasia, the daughter of Czar Nicholas, so they can collect ten million pounds held in her name by the Bank of England. Bergman won her second Oscar for her winning portrayal that introduces just the right regal note of doubt about her real heritage. Remade in 1997 as Fox's first animated feature. Adapted from the play by Marcelle Maurette.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1956 --- Ceremony Number 29 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActressIngrid BergmanWon
Best Music - ScoringAlfred NewmanNominated
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Anastasia BlogHub Articles:

Short Film Saturday: Anastasia Dancing with Czarina and Her Sisters

By Bernardo Villela on Jul 5, 2014 From The Movie Rat

This is another short I found thanks to Movies Silently. Ever since I learned the tale of the fall of Czarist Russia an the Bolshevik revolution it’s been a story that fascinated me on either side. In the early days of motion pictures documenting real-life was as valuable, if not a more valuab... Read full article

Silent Movie Time Capsule: The real Anastasia dancing with the Czarina and sisters

By Fritzi Kramer on Nov 23, 2013 From Movies Silently

Thanks to rumors of survival, Anastasia is by far the most famous of Czar Nicholas’s daughters. (Her name even means “reborn.”)  Recently, DNA tests confirmed that the poor girl died with the rest of her family but the romance and intriguing what-if tales are still with us. My fav... Read full article

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Anastasia Quotes:

Dowager Empress: But oh please, if it should not be you, don't ever tell me.
Dowager Empress: I will tell them that the play is over, now go home.
Boris Adreivich Chernov: ...and that woman is too too something! Too crazy, too clever, too tricky!
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: I don't care what she is! The important thing is that she fits!
Dowager Empress: Lievenbaum, you're disgusting! At your age, a woman's only thoughts of sex should be gender!
Dowager Empress: We are most of us lonely, and it is mostly of our own making.
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Anastasia Facts
In reality, Anna Anderson never met the Dowager Empress, the Czarevna Maria Feodorovna. The Empress believed that her son and his family had survived and were still in Russia. The Grand Duchess Olga, the younger daughter of Czarevna Maria Feodorovna, did meet Anna Anderson while the latter was convalescing in a sanitarium and visited her a few more times before making the determination that something was not right with the ailing woman's claims. The Grand Duchesses Olga and Xenia did not wish to upset the aged Empress and it is not known if they mentioned Anderson to her at all. The Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna remained in Denmark until her death in 1928. In 2006, her remains were transferred to St. Petersburg where she was laid to rest beside her husband, Czar Alexander III.
Anna Anderson's handwriting was pronounced identical with Anastasia's and medical experts found 17 points of similarity between her ear and the real Anastasia's. However, after her death it was discovered that her DNA did not match of England's Prince Philip, a blood relative of the Romanovs.
The original Broadway production of "Anastasia" by Marcelle Maurette (English adaptation by Guy Bolton) opened at the Lyceum Theatre on December 29, 1954, ran for 272 performances and closed on September 24, 1955.
The conspiratorial trio of Bounine, Chernov, and Petrovin in the film are purely fictional.
Cary Grant, a dear friend of Ingrid Bergman, accepted her Anastasia Oscar at the 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957).
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