“The painter takes his time. He doesn't like her dress. He doesn't like her gloves. One day he asks her if she dares pose for him – all in pink. She dares! And the king, enraptured by her pose, offers her a palace!” Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)
Aug
14
Bavaria
The crowned royal mistress on display in glorious Eastmancolor (via). DP: Christian Matras.
Celebrating Oktoberfest [in September/October] and the Bavarian royals [rip]: a royal character or family*
– circus master
Maria Dolores Porriz y Montez, Countess von Landsfeld, Lola Montès for short, now a circus attraction, once the mistress to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. While her fellow circus performers play Lola's former lovers, the ringmaster tells her story.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow.