Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actor-Manager Maurice Evans, specialist since 1935 in such classic doublet & hose roles as Romeo, Hamlet, Richard II, Falstaff and Macbeth, broke a theatrical tradition. For The Browning Version (see THEATER), he made his first Broadway appearance in what he called "an honest-to-God pair of pants...
...interest U.S. moviemakers in England.) Of the four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty summed it up with an old Hollywood gag: "Out at the Rank studios it's so quiet you can hear an option drop...
...sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care to see a stage filled with Luise Rainers, all going at once; it would be overwhelming. But the one we have with us now is most welcome and, I repeat, nothing less than captivating...
...acting in "A Touch" is limited, again, by the pantomime requirements of the silent film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person...
...Hollywood's wildcatters had been so lucky. Directors John Huston and Mervyn Le Roy, and Actor Dennis O'Keefe and several oilmen recently sank $194,000 into a 10,500-ft. dry well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what...