Word: bergerac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casting-of-the-week: big-mouthed Edward G. Robinson as big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac...
There is perhaps no deed of Cyrano de Bergerac, that redoubtable French anticipation and compound of Babe Ruth, George Washington and Dr. Sarkas, which has so endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the torture of any especially unfortunate and protracted turn, that the spirit of Cyrano was not reborn in him, and that he could not produce a sword from beneath the seat which didn't even have enough room for his knees, and drive the offender headlong from the stage...
Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
...strikingly than any previous cinema in which he has appeared the peculiar capacity of Actor Charles Laughton to seem created by providential dispensation in the identical likeness of whomever he undertakes to impersonate. Actor Laughton is currently in London preparing to appear in an English version of Cyrano de Bergerac. To perfect his understanding of the play, he learned it by heart in French and had up to last week written out twelve copies by memory. Before making Mutiny on the Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street tailors: "I wish to inquire about some uniforms...
...British Producer Alexander Korda (TIME, Sept. 9) whose pictures United Artists has been distributing in the U. S. for the past two years. First foreign partner in a U. S. film company, Mr. Korda planned to continue to produce abroad, said he would leave immediately and start Cyrano de Bergerac with Charles Laughton, Lawrence of Arabia with a brand new star named Walter Hudd, who was advertised as a discovery of George Bernard Shaw...