Who's singing, 'Deustchland Uber Alles'?
I completely missed this short-lived tv series.
I saw a snippet on YouTube.
Who is the brunette stewardess singing, "Deutschland Uber Alles"?
Why? What was that episode all about?
I completely missed this short-lived tv series.
I saw a snippet on YouTube.
Who is the brunette stewardess singing, "Deutschland Uber Alles"?
Why? What was that episode all about?
I'll try to help.
It was PanAm stewardess Colette. The girls were invited to the embassy in Berlin--early 60s of course.
Colette is French. Her age means she grew up during the war in France. She harbors no love for Germans.
As a kind of way to make a point, she, the French person, sings Uber Alles a kind of a mocking of what was going on at the embassy during the party.
She later points out that all the French children were FORCED to learn Uber Alles under German occupation---she she was making the point that the Germans were being treated in the mid-60s as sympathetic people at the embassy party; yet she'd been occupied by them, unlike some others in the room. She had first hand experience at their brutality during the war. And forcing French children to learn and sing Uber Alles under occupation was a humiliation they had to endure.
She behaved badly by the standard set for her at the party. But she simply reacted emotionally rather than sensibly, because as a Pan Am employee she was there as a kind of public relationship representative; so it was a very damaging thing for her to do--to act out in public like that for personal reasons when she was representing her employer.
That's the context.
Thank you, paradesend. Colette is a pretty brunette from Canada as I learned off Google.
shareYes, she turned out to be a real favorite of fans at the time and rather seemed to eclipse the putative star, Christina Ricci, in overall popularity and discussions.
Which was interesting, as she was not known at all well in the US prior to being cast.
She really made an impression on fans at that time--this board was filled with compliments saying how she was their favorite of the women.
It's notable, perhaps, that she sings (sounds like the actress herself to me) the first stanza, while West Germany only then (and now) used the third stanza.
"Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world," etc. seen as too much after WWII.
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Why didn't you (OP) just go look up "Pan Am" on the imdb cast list and see who the actress was before coming to the message boards? It could be anywhere from days to weeks or more before someone answers your question. I saw the same video on youtube myself and then came to imdb to research the same question.
"check the imdb cast list before asking who portrayed who in movies please"