Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly anyone on stage is fully human or alive, which may be the fault of Anthony Quayle's direction. As an actor with a grandiose voice, he himself can get away with a heavy, solid, nearly motionless style of acting, because his voice does most of the work. But no one else on stage, not even Katherine Cornell, who often visibly tries to compete with Quayle on a purely vocal, statuesque level, can get away with...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)-a magnificent story of the horror and the glory of war (TIME...
Brando's American antithesis, played by Actor Clift, is a shy young New York Jew. A simpler animal altogether than the German boy. he fights for survival and for his unit, asks no questions and gets no answers. Brave, natural, extraverted, he probably exemplifies what was best in the U.S. fighting man of World War II just as Brando speaks for what was best in the German soldier. As a matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director Jose Ferrer (TIME, March...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...