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ROSEMARY KINGSLAND
Just A Gigolo


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Corgi, London, 1979
(price: 85p; 156 pages)


The blurb on the back:

BERLIN IN THE 1920s ...
a time of change, a time of upheaval. Paul von Pryzgodski was a young man whose life had led him to expect heroism, but instead he found failure - failure in the Great War, failure at trying to find a career, failure at nearly every relationship that comes his way until he meets the Baroness and discovers there is one profession at which he can excel ...


The book: A novelization of Joshua Sinclair & Ennio de Concini's screenplay, which in turn came from a story by Sinclair.

The film: The directing debut of 1960s actor David Hemmings, who demonstrated that quite possibly he was just a pretty face.

The role: Bowie plays an aristocratic Prussian officer named Paul von Pryzgodsky - a stiff, formal man portrayed in a stiff, formal manner.

The co-stars: Two German screen legends - Marlene Dietrich and Curt Jurgens - make their final big-screen appearances, alongside another veteran, Kim Novak, who was coming near the end of her career.

Most memorable image: Bowie with a pig under his arm.

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Trivia: Just A Gigolo was, at the time, the most expensive German movie ever. It was not necessarily the best.


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HE, AN ACTOR
DAVID BOWIE'S FILM CAREER IN BOOKS

Man Who Fell to Earth
The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976
Just a Gigolo
Just a Gigolo
1978
Christiane F
H: Christiane F
1981
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
1982
The Hunger
The Hunger
1983
Absolute Beginners
Absolute Beginners
1986
Labyrinth
Labyrinth
1986


a brief resumé of Bowie's career

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