I Am a Camera

…the basis for the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972).

…on John Van Druten’s play I Am a Camera (1951), which was inspired by the British-American author Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical The Berlin Stories (1945). Cabaret opened in New York City at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 20, 1966, before transferring to the Imperial Theatre and then the Broadway Theatre, where…

…for John Van Druten’s play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955). Fred Ebb and John Kander turned this material into the much-acclaimed stage musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972).

…that book, John Van Druten’s I Am a Camera. Grey’s creation of the character brought him critical accolades and a Tony Award, one of several earned by Cabaret. He also created the title role in the musical George M! (1968), about the entertainer George M. Cohan, and that performance earned…

…cabaret singer Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera (1952; film 1955), as Joan of Arc in The Lark (1956; television film 1957), as a 40-year-old divorcée in a May-December romance in Forty Carats (1969), as Mary Todd Lincoln in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973; television film 1976), and…