Word: emlyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, she is about par for a blustery course. Robert Newton, as the law officer, and Emlyn Williams, a pirate, can do little more to support a disjointed script sagging mainly from the over-productive imagination of authoress Daphne du Maurier. Both the screen play and the acting proceed at a hurricane pitch, which makes Jamaica Inn seem considerably older than its tender fifteen years...
Last season and this, made up to the last whisker like Charles Dickens, British Playwright Emlyn (Night Must Fall) Williams has successfully read from the master's works in 43 U.S. cities. Still whiskered and white-tied, Williams was back on Broadway last week. On certain evenings, he repeats last season's bill; on others, he offers a one-man Bleak House...
...Queen Victoria were in the Royal box while Emlyn William reads Dickens, the scene would be complete. For costumed as Dickens in nineteenth century evening clothes and a massive beard, Williams recreates a dignified and genteel era. His copy of Block House is on the red velvet reading stand only for the sake of appearance, since Williams recites unfalteringly his adaptation of the bulky novel. Rearranging and shortening the stands of the initiate plot. Williams presents a version of Bleak House which the listener can follow with case and pleasure...
Starring Robert Donat, the J. Arthur Rank technicolor masterpiece features almost every well-known English star. Michael Redgrave briefly appears as an instrument maker, while Emlyn Williams only faces the audience once...
...Emlyn Williams. Joan Fontaine. 72. The Strange Ones, a cinema adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfant s Terribles, is the tragedy...