Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Superman was played with all the high style of Actor-Manager Evans' Broadway hit production of 1947-and seen by perhaps 15 million viewers, roughly 45 times the paying customers who attended all 150 performances. Said Sponsor Joyce C. Hall: "I would rather have a satisfied 8 million in the audience than a dissatisfied 24 million...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Battle of Britain, with the recorded voice of Sir Winston Churchill, narration of Actor Michael Redgrave...
...then-with a telephone, a pair of gloved hands, a package addressed to one actor that drives an inquisitive fellow actor mad-the essential idea is fresh, amusing and satiric. Here and there the production embroidery is ingenious and witty. But too often it is obvious that beneath all the sauce piquante there is leftover meat or no meat at all; and in time there results an awful sameness of effect from so many frantic efforts to be different...
Cranks tries so hard to be different that there are no real skits at all-which are the lifeblood of a revue. Except for Actor Anthony Newley, there is no touch of that special drollery which is the backbone of British humor. And despite a good deal of moody strumming, there is little in the way of tunes. With its self-conscious patternings and posturings, Cranks, at times, less resembles a revue than the rites of some such sect as the Stanislavsky methodists...
...Last Laugh was made in 1924, five years after Caligari; the film medium's posibilities for representing the feelings of one man had never before been so fully exploited. The image we have of the doorman owes as much to the director F. W. Murnaw as to the actor Emil Jannings...