Background
Gustav Machaty was born on 9 May 1901 in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Gustav Machaty was born on 9 May 1901 in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Machaty's is a career that resembles the nomadic life forced on Hungarian Paul Fejos. For Machaty left Czechoslovakia and went by way of Austria and Italy to Hollywood, where he is supposed to have worked ou The Good Earth, among other things. He stayed there during the war, and Jealousy is a seventy-one-minute noir that stars John Loder. Nils Asther, and Jane Randolph. If only, in America, Machaty could have been reunited with his discovery Hedwig Kiesler—who had become Hedv Lamarr at MGM. Their film. Ecstasy, is actually worth all the hype attached to it. The story of a young woman married to an old man who finds a young lover lacks subtlety, but the nude bathing scenes are gorgeous and the orgasm that “Eva” experiences is still startling and touching.
Rut just as Fejos has his Lonesome, so Machaty should be known for From Saturday to Sunday, a romance that says a lot about urban life and isolation and does so with a camera style that ignores the limitations of early sound. It’s clear that Machaty was a man of real talent, and it is to be hoped that more of his films become available.