Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long speeches are unobtrusively broken up with movement, and because they are delivered brilliantly by Kenneth Haigh as Jimmy, there is never any suggestion that they are formal setpieces, or that Jimmy is a windbag. Mr. Haigh, who created the role in London and New York, is an emotional actor of considerable power, with an almost impish charm that takes just enough of the curse off Jimmy's bitcheries...
...service ended, an honor guard of Marine aviators carried the body of ex-Marine Tyrone Power, 45, from Hollywood's Chapel of the Psalms to a grave in Memorial Park Cemetery. Major Power deserved the attention; he had served his country well during World War II. As an actor, he had been better than many of Hollywood's handsome heroes. As a private citizen, he had certainly been no worse. But in paying its last respects to a man it genuinely liked-he had died in Spain on the set of his latest movie, Solomon and Sheba-Hollywood...
Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile...
...convince anybody that the old rapscallion is really a genius. The stupefyingly loud and uninteresting pictures he paints (actually the work of Britain's 30-year-old John Bratby) are partly responsible for the failure, but Guinness must share in the blame. He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force to fill out a personality as large as Jimson's. And he seems to have ignored almost completely the extraordinary religious depths of the man, as expressed, for instance, in the amen he sings to life in his dying words...
Perhaps the imaginations of actor and author are not perfectly harmonious. Genet has directed that his dialogue be pronounced "with the characteristic deformations that go with the accent of the slums." Perhaps he would prefer the Hoboken accents affected by Morrow and Maharis to the not incongruous, but certainly piquant and different, pronunciation that Scott employs. On the other hand, Hoboken English is ugly, as perhaps the accent of the French slums is not. Certainly the former seems unworthy of the vivid vigor of Genet's purple passages: "Snowball's a well-built guy. If you like...