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...Theater Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy excel as an old married couple in The Petition. Vienna: Lusthaus is a lyrical, abstract dream...
...Hume Cronyn on the Craft of Acting In his career of more than 60 years, actor Hume Cronyn, who died last month [Milestones, June 30], portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from a shipwreck survivor in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat to a grumpy old man in the Cocoon comedies of the 1980s. He talked to TIME about acting as a profession in an April 2, 1990, article...
...Cronyn, who is 78, headed south [from Canada] in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting... A small, wiry man with wispy hair and seemingly inexhaustible energy, Cronyn [says]... 'Our theater apes film and television... You'll see it in scripts. Audiences now have far less tolerance for long passages of dialogue than they used to. And you can't talk to me or to anybody my age in which you don't hear a sort of old fart's moan about the fact that it's much more difficult now for kids to learn the craft...
DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, wiry, perfectionist actor who infused his ordinary, often cranky characters with bubbling intensity; of prostate cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. An amateur boxer in his native Canada, he first won acclaim for his vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...