henriguisol &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:henriguisol @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:01:55 +0200 Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g6tn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Bavaria/div div class="img" Lola Montès (1955)/div div class="caption" The crowned royal mistress on display in glorious Eastmancolor (via). DP: Christian Matras./div div class="txt" Celebrating Oktoberfest in September/October] and the [Bavarian royals [rip]: a royal character or family "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!" ### – 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. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #royalty #MaxOphüls #JacquesLaurent #MartineCarol #PeterUstinov #AntonWalbrook #HenriGuisol #GeorgesAuric #ChristianMatras #Eastmancolor #circus #biography #drama #romance #history #BookAdaptation #France #WestGermany #1950s/div /section ]]>

Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)

Aug

14

Bavaria

Lola Montès (1955)

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*

“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!”

– 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.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #royalty #MaxOphüls #JacquesLaurent #MartineCarol #PeterUstinov #AntonWalbrook #HenriGuisol #GeorgesAuric #ChristianMatras #Eastmancolor #circus #biography #drama #romance #history #BookAdaptation #France #WestGermany #1950s

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