Word: donators
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...
Antiques. Best-liked British plays are both revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter...
...Robert Donat plays the title role--that of a Balkan Man of Mystery whom everyone (except the audience) suspects of Nazi sympathies--and makes the most of his shadow-lurking appearances. His support, which includes spies, Gestape agents, saboteurs and the like--all a congenial crew--is adequate and, at times, pretty darn good...
Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...