Word: aylmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading actor. Most productions have little to recommend them except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have...
Biographer Simmons, professor of Russian literature at Columbia, has also written biographies of Pushkin and Dostoevsky. His work on Tolstoy includes much material, such as diaries of Tolstoy's wife and his letters to her, that were unavailable to Aylmer Maude, whose Life of Tolstoy, published in 1910, has been standard in English. Along with a Russian biography by N. N. Gusev, of which only two volumes have yet appeared, the Simmons biography is the most authoritative and objective work on the subject...
...Felix Aylmer plays Mr. Emmanuel with wise dignity, and leaves the feeling that no one else could quite fill the bill. His performance blends with the soft European beauty of Greta Gynt and the calm, leisurely pacing characteristic of English films to create an extremely satisfying impression of finished artistry. There is fidelity of characterization; unlike American screen women, who are invariably trim, several of the female leads are frankly heavy. There are glimpses of Goering and Himmler that ring very true, and desperate expressions on the faces of tortured Jews which tell the whole miserable story of persecution...
...Emmanuel (Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla; TIME...
...Emmanuel (Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla; TIME...