Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a bowlegged buzzard, and all the traditional slapstick routines are crammed into a confusing but hilarious "Room Service." According to the screenplay, Groucho is a producer who has no backers, Chico an unidentified character who lives with Groucho and owns a large stuffed moose head, and Harpo an actor who plays a dead body in Groucho's epic. But as in all their films, the zany trio slip in and out of their plot roles as the occasion demands; so Groucho leers, Chico mugs, and Harpo ogles with accustomed vigor. After two reels, even the most astute give...
...great actress," instructed Actor Mason, "has talent plus intelligence plus imagination plus X." The only cinemactress whom Mason currently found in possession of "plus X": Greta Garbo. The other four best: Dorothy McGuire, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and "a non-pareil," Lena Home (see Music...
...Hope was back from a royal command performance in London with the classiest imaginable keepsake for his actor's-scrapbook: a nice picture of Hope hobnobbing with fascinated royal chums around a book of Hollywood autographs, including Hope...
Katharine Cornell is competent and lively as Cleopatra, but hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...
...story is a pleasant little fraud. A trumped-up anecdote of King Charles II's gay undernourishment in continental garrets, it is designed chiefly to purvey the Tarzantics of Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. But The Exile is also Young Doug's first fling as a producer, and he has concealed most of the fraud with both legitimate and handsome cinematic tricks...