LA VIDA BOHEMIA, a Spanish-language version of the same story Puccini used for his opera, has an interesting pedigree. Produced by Spanish-California heir Jaime del Amo and photographed by the great John Alton, it was at shot in Los Angeles by director Josef Berne, with a rumored helping hand by Edgar Ulmer.
This is a UCLA Film & Television Archive presentation of the PST: LA/LA program RECUERDOS DE UN CINE ESPAÑOL—LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA IN LOS ANGELES, a look back at the movies that played off Broadway’s main stem in downtown Los Angeles in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.
LA VIDA BOHEMIA and VERBENA TRÁGICA
Saturday, December 2, at 7:30 pm.
BILLY WILDER THEATER, HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
cinema.ucla.edu/events/2017/12/02/vida-bohemia-verbena-tragica
cinema.ucla.edu/events/latinamericanfilm
Friday, December 8, at 7:30.
DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT, 251 South Main Street, downtown Los Angeles.
Rosita Díaz Gimeno, and (middle) with co-star Gilbert Roland in La vida bohemia (1938). Image credit for La vida bohemia: UCLA Film and Television Archive.
