The line "I cannot marry you. I can only marry a beautiful woman." is apparently something that we know from Alma
Oh, Zoltan, that´s true, but obviously you misunderstood, that in the film Natalie says shortly before Almas words, read by another female voice: "Alma Mahler rumoured the story like this:". So I marked Almas words as Almas words. This part is, by the way, an unpublished and later cancelled one in the original script of her memoirs. I was happy to be allowed to read that document due to the generosity of the owner of it, Mr. Henry-Louis de La Grange.
The diaries of Natalie (what's left of them) are in the possession of de La Grange and he's mentioned in the credits, so I would gather (together with the three year period of preparing and making this film) that Beate Thalberg had more insight, than what we could know from the published source from Natalie's diaries.
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yes, I could read the original diaries, 9 are left, they badly need to be looked up by scientists. I couldn´t find one scientifical work about Natalie or Gustav and Natalie. She is only mentioned, a footnote. Zoltan, thank you very much for your posting.
