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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Irene's name is pronounced "Ear-ray-na".
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* MysteriousPast: Irene claims to be a Russian highborn lady who escaped from the Bolsheviks. Weber says that she's told at least eleven times how she escaped "and each time it was different". Apparently at one point in the distant past the woman who now calls herself Irene was a vaudeville performer, who had a one-night stand with Harry in Omaha. And late in the play Irene loses her Russian accent.
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* MysteriousPast: Irene claims to be a Russian highborn lady who escaped from the Bolsheviks. Weber says that she's told at least eleven times how she escaped "and each time it was different". Apparently at one point in the distant past the woman who now calls herself Irene was a vaudeville performer, who had a one-night stand with Harry in Omaha. And late Late in the play Irene loses her Russian accent.
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* RideOfTheValkyries: Over 40 years before ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', this play has Harry playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on the piano as the French bombers approach the hotel.
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Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France. In 1939 ''Idiot's Delight'' was made into a feature film starring Creator/ClarkGable and Norma Shearer. It was directed by Clarence Brown, and Robert Sherwood adapted his own play for the screen. Gable sings and dances for the only time in his long film career.
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Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France. In 1939 ''Idiot's Delight'' was made into a feature film starring Creator/ClarkGable and Norma Shearer.Creator/NormaShearer. It was directed by Clarence Brown, and Robert Sherwood adapted his own play for the screen. Gable sings and dances for the only time in his long film career.
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A 1983 musical adaptation, ''Dance a Little Closer'', was written by Alan Jay Lerner, with music by Charles Strouse. Introducing a UsefulNotes/ColdWar SettingUpdate and a gay marriage subplot, ''Dance a Little Closer'' was Lerner's last and least successful Broadway musical.
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Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France. In 1939 ''Idiot's Delight'' was made into a feature film starring Creator/ClarkGable and Norma Shearer. It was directed by Clarence Brown, and Robert Sherwood adapted his own play for the screen. Gable sings and dances for the only time in his long film career.
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* LadyDrunk: Madame Zulaika, the PhonyPsychic whom Harry has an act with. Her water jug is actually filled with gin, leaving her drunk during a performance.
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* HighClassGlass: Appropriately, Weber the evil arms dealer sports one.
* LadyDrunk: Madame Zulaika, the PhonyPsychic whom Harry has an act with. Her water jug is actually filled with gin, leaving her drunk during aperformance.performance.
* MultipleEndings: Two endings were shot. The ending for American audiences is a somewhat less harrowing bombing sequence in which Harry tries to teach Irene the code for the PhonyPsychic act while the bombs fall. The international ending has Harry and Irene singing a hymn like in the play. Both endings, unlike the play, show that Harry and Irene survive.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: To avoid offending UsefulNotes/FascistItaly, the film is set not in the Italian alps but in some non-specific border crossing in the mountains. The locals speak not Italian, but UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Maybe. The play actually has an ambiguous ending in which Irene and Harry sing "Onward, Christian Soldiers" as the bombs rain down. In the film, both endings show Irene and Harry definitely alive after the bombing stops.
* LadyDrunk: Madame Zulaika, the PhonyPsychic whom Harry has an act with. Her water jug is actually filled with gin, leaving her drunk during a
* MultipleEndings: Two endings were shot. The ending for American audiences is a somewhat less harrowing bombing sequence in which Harry tries to teach Irene the code for the PhonyPsychic act while the bombs fall. The international ending has Harry and Irene singing a hymn like in the play. Both endings, unlike the play, show that Harry and Irene survive.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: To avoid offending UsefulNotes/FascistItaly, the film is set not in the Italian alps but in some non-specific border crossing in the mountains. The locals speak not Italian, but UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Maybe. The play actually has an ambiguous ending in which Irene and Harry sing "Onward, Christian Soldiers" as the bombs rain down. In the film, both endings show Irene and Harry definitely alive after the bombing stops.
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Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France. In 1939 ''Idiot's Delight'' was made into a feature film starring Creator/ClarkGable and Norma Shearer.
Shearer. Gable sings and dances for the only time in his long film career.
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* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The whole story takes place in the inn, as various characters are stuck there with the closure of the border crossing.
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* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The whole story takes place in the inn, as various characters are stuck there with the closure of the border crossing.crossing.
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!!Tropes found in the 1939 film:
* AdaptationExpansion: An entirely original first act dramatizing Harry and Irene's BackStory, including their fling in Omaha.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Among the things Harry does in the lean years after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI are sell encyclopedias door-to-door and sell snake oil on street corners.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "The gay, carefree world of entertainment."
* LadyDrunk: Madame Zulaika, the PhonyPsychic whom Harry has an act with. Her water jug is actually filled with gin, leaving her drunk during a performance.
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!!Tropes found in the 1939 film:
* AdaptationExpansion: An entirely original first act dramatizing Harry and Irene's BackStory, including their fling in Omaha.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Among the things Harry does in the lean years after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI are sell encyclopedias door-to-door and sell snake oil on street corners.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "The gay, carefree world of entertainment."
* LadyDrunk: Madame Zulaika, the PhonyPsychic whom Harry has an act with. Her water jug is actually filled with gin, leaving her drunk during a performance.
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France. In 1939 ''Idiot's Delight'' was made into a feature film starring Creator/ClarkGable and Norma Shearer.
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''Idiot's Delight'' is a 1936 play written by Robert Sherwood.
The setting is a small resort hotel in the Italian Alps, right on the border with Switzerland. Various guests arrive at the hotel, including: Mr. and Mrs. Cherry, British newlyweds; Harry Van, an American vaudeville performer who is leading a troupe of dancing girls; Dr. Waldersee, a German scientists who is on the verge of a cure for cancer; Quillery, a French Communist and anti-war activist; Achille Weber, a German arms dealer; and his companion Irene, a Russian woman with a MysteriousPast.
The travelers' plans are complicated when Capt. Lociciero, the officer in charge of the border post, tells them that the border has been closed and the train has been halted due to the imminent threat of war. The possibility of war is even more threatening because the resort hotel is in close proximity to an Italian air base. Tensions rise as the guests hope to escape before war is declared.
Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France.
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!!Tropes:
* ArmsDealer: Weber, the most villainous character in the play, who sells arms to all sides and profits off of death. He defends himself by saying that the people who use his products are worse than he is.
* DownerEnding: War has come. Quillery has been executed. Apparently Irene and Harry are going to die in the raid. Waldersee has rejected his cancer research and decided to devote himself to germ warfare research in support of the German war effort.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The story takes place over about 24 hours.
* ForeignLanguageTirade:
--> '''Pittaluga''': Pezzo mascalzone farabutto prepotente canaglia.
--> '''Don''': And it will do you no good to call me names in your native tongue.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Harry calls cocaine "illuminating", saying that it helped him appreciate how everyone in the world is addicted to their false faith and false beliefs.
* HypocriticalHumor: Quillery is a Communist who rejects the concept of nationalism, won't even admit that he's a citizen of France, and is working to stop the war--but once the news comes of the Italian raid on Paris he become violently nationalistic and verbally antagonizes the Italian soldiers in the hotel.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Irene's name is pronounced "Ear-ray-na".
* TheMistress: Irene is Weber's. He abandons her at the hotel after coming to believe her anti-war sentiments could hurt his business.
* MysteriousPast: Irene claims to be a Russian highborn lady who escaped from the Bolsheviks. Weber says that she's told at least eleven times how she escaped "and each time it was different". Apparently at one point in the distant past the woman who now calls herself Irene was a vaudeville performer, who had a one-night stand with Harry in Omaha. And late in the play Irene loses her Russian accent.
* RideOfTheValkyries: Over 40 years before ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', this play has Harry playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on the piano as the French bombers approach the hotel.
* ShotAtDawn: Quillery's fate after getting too insulting with the Italians.
* TitleDrop: Irene imagines that an indifferent God is up there playing "idiot's delight" (solitaire), "the game that never means anything, and never ends."
* WarIsHell: Mr. Cherry calls it a "bestial frenzy". Irene gives a vivid hypothetical picture of how Mr. Cherry will be crushed by a tank while his wife will end up a mangled corpse after an air raid.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The whole story takes place in the inn, as various characters are stuck there with the closure of the border crossing.
The setting is a small resort hotel in the Italian Alps, right on the border with Switzerland. Various guests arrive at the hotel, including: Mr. and Mrs. Cherry, British newlyweds; Harry Van, an American vaudeville performer who is leading a troupe of dancing girls; Dr. Waldersee, a German scientists who is on the verge of a cure for cancer; Quillery, a French Communist and anti-war activist; Achille Weber, a German arms dealer; and his companion Irene, a Russian woman with a MysteriousPast.
The travelers' plans are complicated when Capt. Lociciero, the officer in charge of the border post, tells them that the border has been closed and the train has been halted due to the imminent threat of war. The possibility of war is even more threatening because the resort hotel is in close proximity to an Italian air base. Tensions rise as the guests hope to escape before war is declared.
Something of an UnintentionalPeriodPiece today--the real UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did not start with Italy attacking France.
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!!Tropes:
* ArmsDealer: Weber, the most villainous character in the play, who sells arms to all sides and profits off of death. He defends himself by saying that the people who use his products are worse than he is.
* DownerEnding: War has come. Quillery has been executed. Apparently Irene and Harry are going to die in the raid. Waldersee has rejected his cancer research and decided to devote himself to germ warfare research in support of the German war effort.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The story takes place over about 24 hours.
* ForeignLanguageTirade:
--> '''Pittaluga''': Pezzo mascalzone farabutto prepotente canaglia.
--> '''Don''': And it will do you no good to call me names in your native tongue.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Harry calls cocaine "illuminating", saying that it helped him appreciate how everyone in the world is addicted to their false faith and false beliefs.
* HypocriticalHumor: Quillery is a Communist who rejects the concept of nationalism, won't even admit that he's a citizen of France, and is working to stop the war--but once the news comes of the Italian raid on Paris he become violently nationalistic and verbally antagonizes the Italian soldiers in the hotel.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Irene's name is pronounced "Ear-ray-na".
* TheMistress: Irene is Weber's. He abandons her at the hotel after coming to believe her anti-war sentiments could hurt his business.
* MysteriousPast: Irene claims to be a Russian highborn lady who escaped from the Bolsheviks. Weber says that she's told at least eleven times how she escaped "and each time it was different". Apparently at one point in the distant past the woman who now calls herself Irene was a vaudeville performer, who had a one-night stand with Harry in Omaha. And late in the play Irene loses her Russian accent.
* RideOfTheValkyries: Over 40 years before ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', this play has Harry playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on the piano as the French bombers approach the hotel.
* ShotAtDawn: Quillery's fate after getting too insulting with the Italians.
* TitleDrop: Irene imagines that an indifferent God is up there playing "idiot's delight" (solitaire), "the game that never means anything, and never ends."
* WarIsHell: Mr. Cherry calls it a "bestial frenzy". Irene gives a vivid hypothetical picture of how Mr. Cherry will be crushed by a tank while his wife will end up a mangled corpse after an air raid.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The whole story takes place in the inn, as various characters are stuck there with the closure of the border crossing.
