Schnell... So Little Time!!!

This morning Cath and I did a cryptoquote by actress Maria Schell:

• “Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.” 

Her surname is an addition to the “Add a Letter Makes a Word” pattern-cluster— adding “n” makes “schnell”, a German word that means “quick”.  So “schnell/quick” and then “time” cropping up in her quote, and then given that “time/clockmaker” that factored in my previous post, generates a “Time Theme” pattern-cluster.  Note from Maria’s wiki page:

• Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926 – 26 April 2005)

Both my son and life partner are born on her birthday, January 15th, and so a prompt to investigate further.  On perusing the list of filmography on Maria’s wiki page, I selected 3:

• So Little Time (1952) as Nicole de Malvines
• 99 Women (1969) as Leonie
• The Odessa File (1974) as Frau Miller 

Each of their titles has something that stands out.   When we investigated Maria’s filmography, Cath mentioned, The Odessa File, as a film that she heard of.  I chose the first two because of the cryptic elements found in their titles.  The first one being obvious in that it has “Time” in it, and so another addition to the “Time Theme” pattern-cluster... and a heads up.   As for the “99 Women” film, the 99 is an addition to the “Identical Number Sequence” pattern-cluster... also a heads up. Also, the mention of “Women” in the title is a cryptic reference to the “inner twin MATRIARCHAL world”.   The “99” communicates “very mad/unhappy” given that the 9 shares the same key on my key board as the left bracket “(“ that’s used to make the “down” turned mouth of the sad/mad emoticon:

                        :-(  

And so note the following excerpt from the wiki page of the first film:

• So Little Time... World War II romance drama, directed by Compton Bennett 

The directors name stands out given that the surname of my life partner Cath, is Bennett:

• Herbert "Bob" Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974)

Cath also had a brother named “Bob” who committed suicide when she was 13.   And so the cluster expands into a “January 15(x4)” pattern-cluster.   As for the second film,  one of the cast stands out:

• Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012)as Governor Santos

His birthday stands out... and note from my previous post:

• Peter Stretch (October 14, 1670 – September 11, 1746) 

And then we come to the third film, the one that Cath had selected:

George Markstein (29 August 1926 – 15 January 1987) written by