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Kitty’s idea took hold, and the Brattle Theater Company formed, immediately buying Brattle Hall. From 1948 to 1952, the Company occupied the building, bringing the likes of Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Zero Mostel to play in everything from Shakesperean tragedies to Chekhovian dramas...

Author: By Rebecca M. Milzoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Buff Haven Celebrates Half-Century of Celluloid | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...Martin Short is nominated against George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Gregory Peck and, posthumously, J.T. Walsh. Is Short even going to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 3, 1998 | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...pity, but just because of exhaustion), I kept trying to remind her what an extraordinary success she had had as a wife, as a mother and as an actress. I hope that it registered and that in her darkest moments she may have remembered and even believed it. HUME CRONYN New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...press credentials will get you into The Clinton Coffees, Pts. 1-44 (1997). Just four bucks will get you a coffee movie. But what exactly is a coffee movie? Parallax View was set in Seattle, yet features maybe two cups of the stuff (although one does kill Hume Cronyn). Pam Grier's blaxploitation babe-fest Coffy (1973), despite its many merits, isn't one either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Percolator: Coffee and Cabals | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...Marvin (Hume Cronyn), who sucks the ink off Yahtzee dice, hasn't uttered a coherent word in years. His sister Ruth (Gwen Verdon) is so devoted to soap operas that she dons a formal gown when her favorite characters wed. His daughter Lee (Meryl Streep), who smokes all the time, has no talent for raising kids. Just look at her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), with his pathological fear of apologizing to people he's hurt. Fortunately, Lee's sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) is around. She has taken care of her dad for 20 years. But no good deed goes unpunished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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