Word: gielgud
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...Carroll texts are appealing because their vaudeville format - Alice's encounters with a series of outlandish comic creatures - lends itself to brief star turns. W.C. Fields played Humpty Dumpty, Gary Cooper the White Knight and Cary Grant the Mock Turtle in Hollywood's 1933 Alice. Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Michael Gough helped populate Jonathan Miller's 1966 BBC TV play. Sellers joined other Brit luminaries in a 1972 film of the books...
...Boston Ballet’s presentation of “Giselle,” produced and staged by Maina Gielgud and running through May 20, offers audiences an enchanting evening of classical mid-19th century ballet. As a conservative adaptation that stays true to the piece’s original choreography and tonality, “Giselle” shines as a stellar example of interpreting narrative through dance...
...With a talented ensemble, Gielgud resurrects a beautiful example of classical ballet in the 20th century. Giselle is vibrant, stunning, and entertaining—and “Giselle” is all the better...
Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history--Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
...with T.S. Eliot, was responsible for a brief, mid-century revival of verse drama; in Chichester, England. His plays?most notably The Lady's Not for Burning, a comedy about a suspected witch and an ex-soldier?created roles for the era's greatest actors, including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton. Fry reached his biggest audience, however, as a script doctor who did a rewrite for the epic 1959 film...