Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Horder, a firm opponent of socialized medicine, attacked Britain's new National Health Service Act: "We had hoped that it would be through . . . evolution, rather than through the method of revolution that is now being adopted, that Government would help us to [improve medical care...
...passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
Milt got his start just a few blocks north-in Harlem. His mother, Mrs. Sandra Berlinger, a Wanamaker and Gimbels store detective, began peddling him around New York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest...
Miss Lamour changes clothes, to good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
Luckily, there are several scenes in which the disconsolate pair are allowed to forget this special situation and to act, instead, like any number of other postwar people whose trouble is simply that they have been apart too long, in worlds too different. These scenes are conceived with enough simplicity and insight to give the actors a chance. Whenever they get the chance, they give the show a lot more than it gives them, and The Years Between comes to life as honest domestic drama with persuasive historical overtones. Valerie Hobson is able as well as beautiful, and Michael Redgrave...