Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...
...bewhiskered leading man. "Oh, darling! Look at that poor, sweet, tortured face! Let me kiss it." After that entrance it was hard to believe the program. The seductively feline manner and the shapely, shaved legs (badly nicked by a dressing-room razor) of Lorraine Sheldon belonged to an actor named T. (for Thomas) C. (for Craig) Jones...
...comedy went on, in Pennsylvania's swank-rustic Bucks County Playhouse last week, "T. C." handled hip and handbag so well that the audience rapidly forgot his real sex. "Jones is so good that we completely forgot he was a man," said one actor after the show. "When he leaned over after one rehearsal and kissed his wife, we were all shocked." Mrs. Connie Dickson Jones herself is long past such shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion...
...Feste of Alvin Epstein is outstanding. But even his performance is overshadowed by those of the two sidekicks Berghof invented for him. The Dancing Zany in entrusted to Geoffrey Holder, a 28-year-old six-and-a-half-foot mine of talent: dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, painter, composer, writer, photographer, book illustrator, and folklorist. This show draws on only the first three of his many gifts. Dressed in a striking white costume with mismatched red and orange gloves and stockings, he does a thousand and one things with skill and vigor. The Singing Zany is played by Russell Oberlin...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Claude Rains as a bibulous actor who turns to blackmail when the local saloon cuts off his credit...