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In Zurich he was asked to film a documentary advocating the legalization of abortion, a commission he delegated to Tisse. The finished work—Fraüennot-Fraüengluck (Women’s Joy is Women’s Woe, 1930) —centers on the pregnant mother of a poor family forced to seek an illegal abortion, a theme to which Tisse and Eisenstein would soon return. Meanwhile in Berlin, Eisenstein re-met Emil Jannings, whom he had briefly encountered three years before when he and Tisse had first visited to learn about new developments in film technique and German production methods.
Like the star, Clyde attracts the rapt visual attention of both immigrant factory girls and the wealthy daughters of their employers. As in Hansen’s description of Valentino, he too combines sexual ambiguity and social marginality, albeit without the star’s “ethnic and racial otherness” (Hansen, 1991: 253). Clyde himself prefers the native-born women in the stamping room for the reticence he shares with them, but like Valentino, he could be said to suffer the tragic consequences for American manhood of the wrong shade of limelight.
He conceded the achievements of Griffith, Fairbanks and Barrymore but dismissed Chaplin, De Mille and Helen’s recent director Allan Dwan (for whom, his diary indicates, she was a small-part player, 20 Hollywood's American Tragedies and an object of erotic pursuit, in the 1922 production of Fairbanks’ Robin Hood). He challenged the reporter to name any American film that compared with The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) or the German work of Ernst Lubitsch. Significantly, the director’s Sumurun (One Arabian Night, 1920), the story of a sheik who wants to add dancing girl Pola Negri to his harem, was among the titles he praised.