Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN?A light comedy by Molnar, perfected by the performance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, tries to decide whether an actor can be good enough to seduce his own wife...
Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...Entering, we'll say, the home of a duchess [in London] one might be attracted by the appearance of a distinguished looking man and find him to be a famous pianist. Over in a corner might be a man who had written a play. Cyril Maude, or an actor of his standing, might be observed chatting at another point. And there'd be Lady Diana Manners...
Charles S. Gilpin, actor, for his achievement in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones...
...GUARDSMAN-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne brilliantly cast as an actor and an actress who doubt each other's fidelity...