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Fw: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
> I don't know that "Duck Soup" is SUCH a stretch, as VN was a confirmed
Marx
> Brothers fan-Alfred Appel fondly recalls VN's one-man depiction of "A
Night
> At The Opera"'s stateroom sequence....
>
> GK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 12/5/03 8:28 PM
> Subject: Fw: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
>
> EDNOTE. Thanks to Carolyn for checking. There was an earlier film
> version form before 1937 but VN doubtless knew the original Anthohy
> Hope novel from the 1890s reinforced by one or more of the film
> versions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carolyn Kunin <mailto:chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:01 PM
> Subject: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
>
> The Garland Companion does mention that Prisoner of Zenda was among
> Nabokov's childhood favorites. The (excuse the expression) doppelganger
> theme and the commoner-as-king theme are certainly echoed in PF. It is
> a charming read, a sort of British Three Musketeers, but the only
> possible reference I could find was Shade's eggspoon which turns up in
> the first paragraph of Zenda.
>
> The 1937 film is a charming tour de force for its star, Ronald Colman,
> but is otherwise undistinguished. There was a remake in 1952 with
> Deborah Kerr & Stewart Granger, which I haven't seen.
>
> Carolyn
>
> p.s. Duck Soup?! I guess perhaps the revolution in Fredonia -- but that
> is a stretch.
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: RE: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
> I don't know that "Duck Soup" is SUCH a stretch, as VN was a confirmed
Marx
> Brothers fan-Alfred Appel fondly recalls VN's one-man depiction of "A
Night
> At The Opera"'s stateroom sequence....
>
> GK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 12/5/03 8:28 PM
> Subject: Fw: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
>
> EDNOTE. Thanks to Carolyn for checking. There was an earlier film
> version form before 1937 but VN doubtless knew the original Anthohy
> Hope novel from the 1890s reinforced by one or more of the film
> versions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carolyn Kunin <mailto:chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:01 PM
> Subject: PF & Zenda & p.s.?
>
> The Garland Companion does mention that Prisoner of Zenda was among
> Nabokov's childhood favorites. The (excuse the expression) doppelganger
> theme and the commoner-as-king theme are certainly echoed in PF. It is
> a charming read, a sort of British Three Musketeers, but the only
> possible reference I could find was Shade's eggspoon which turns up in
> the first paragraph of Zenda.
>
> The 1937 film is a charming tour de force for its star, Ronald Colman,
> but is otherwise undistinguished. There was a remake in 1952 with
> Deborah Kerr & Stewart Granger, which I haven't seen.
>
> Carolyn
>
> p.s. Duck Soup?! I guess perhaps the revolution in Fredonia -- but that
> is a stretch.