Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood...
Reach for the Sky, the most popular picture (gross: over $1,500,000) shown in England during 1956, is based on Paul Brickhill's lively biography (TIME, Aug. 2, 1954), and has Kenneth More-the bachelor in Genevieve-in the title role. Actor More, who is probably the world's ablest portrayer of damn-the-torpedoes extraversion, gives a cracking good imitation of a fighting nature that thrived in adversity. Yet the show, more or less, is More-or less. The script suffers from a kind of paraplegia of the narrative instinct, and the fly-stuff never gets...
...character of Harras (played with full vibrato by Actor Jürgens, a sort of John Wayne with Heidelberg trimmings) is a highly romantic one-rather like a combination of Siegfried and Graf Bobby*-and his fiery death is stirringly Wagnerian. But from U.S. moviegoers the hero will probably get no better than pity, and the picture itself, apart from the high praise it deserves as a piece of cinematic craftsmanship, will inevitably inspire a more negative emotion. As the hero himself expresses it: "I can't eat as much as I want to vomit...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...