Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...Victory" Miss Fields plays the part of a young pianist with a travelling girls' orchestra doing a flock of one-nighters in the Dutch East Indies. To avoid the advances of the male conductor she runs away with Fredric March, to his private island in the Java Sea, only to become involved in a plot which threatens both their lives--a plot made all the more evil in that it comes from the warped mind of a jaded soldier of fortune (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) and his knife-throwing lieutenant (Jerome Cowan...
...exceedingly discriminating adaptation from the Conrad novel and a faultless job of direction, help to make "Victory" one of the better pictures of the year. In addition, the leading roles are backed by a supporting cast whose collective performance ranks with the work of Betty Field and Fredric March. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sig Rumann, and Jerome Cowan are given excellent opportunity to demonstrate the value of "type" characters in this sort of movie...
...fifth in its current series of six productions in Boston, the Theatre Guild has chosen Sophie Treadwell's "Hope for a Harvest" and headed the bill with man and wife, Fredric March and Florence Eldridge. Of the two decisions, the casting one is the happier;-"Hope for a Harvest" presents the spectacle of a mediocre piece of writing admirably exploited within its narrow limits by a popular cast...
...Fredric Molnar's romantic comedy, "The Swan," presented by the Radcliffe Idlers Society, opened last night in Agassiz House. The second performance of the production will take place tonight at the same place at 8:30 o'clock...