Word: cedric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 57, British star of stage (Caesar and Cleopatra) and screen (The Winslow Boy); by Actress Helena ("Pixie") Hardwicke, 50, (Time and the Conways); after 23 years of marriage, one son; in London...
...Cedric Hardwicke gives a moving performance as the father who courts bankruptcy to redeem his son's honor, and Margaret Leighton matches it as the daughter who loses her stuffy fiance when the case plunges the family into notoriety. Neil North ably fills the title role. With the help of British dependables in lesser parts, the stars give the film a luster that shines only fleetingly in the script...
Author Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End) had a modest proposal for the British Treasury. Sherriff, whose new play, Home at Seven, was netting him ?3,600 a year, had just had an offer of ?10,000 ($28,000) to write a script...
...Cedric Hardwicke and Frances Leighton give excellent unsentimental performances of Ronnie's father and sister. Arthur Winslow spends his health and, with his daughter's approval, her dowry to clear the family honor. Yet there is never a hint of hand-wringing or "What-Shall-We-Do?" histronics. The feeling of continued hardship is worked in by the skillful use of gloomy, gray photography...
Having thus warned the producers against paying the actors too much, Shaw advised Sir Cedric not to let his salary be pared: "I like my actors well paid...