Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other three. Russian-born Vladimir ("Vee") Padwa, who filled a vacancy in the Quartet in 1942, is the trill expert; Garner likes to handle special tonal colors; Edson is famed for what the others call his "light delicate touch." Viennese Frank Mittler, who looks like a concert version of Actor Frank Fay, quips: "I do the 'dramatic pauses...
There is also less of Charpin, the great actor who plays Panisse. However, he figures prominently in the opening scenes of the movie which are concerned with his death. With Pagnol's perfect taste, understanding, and humor it is one of the most amusing scenes in the film...
...Letter to Three Wives." In that film he played a pensive English teacher. His second appearance gives him a chance to show off his musculature as Midge Kelly, a lightweight boxer who is nearly normal until he steps into a ring. Douglas is a competent boxer and a fine actor in "Champion...
...well-filled purse (he left nearly half a million dollars when he died). When he deliberately added to the strain by touring England and the U.S., reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk, the man who had as many voices as he had characters, could feel his pulse rise from 80 to 120 beats a minute...
...been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film, but makes her part believable...