Word: gielguds
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...from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech by wriggling one's body wildly...
...Despite a good deal wrong with it, this story of a minor editor who is the life force for a group of skimpy has-beens and pallid never-weres is well worth seeing. With Jason Robards Jr., Hume Cronyn, George Voskovec, George Grizzard and Martin Gabel. Directed by John Gielgud...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Music inspired by Shakespeare, sung by Patrice Munsel, Joan Sutherland and Alfred Drake, plus readings by Sir John Gielgud. Color...
...Their curtain raiser is a moving and brilliant Macbeth, starring Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The two-hour, two-record production was followed by Othello, with Cyril Cusack and Frank Silvera; and The Taming of the Shrew, with Margaret Leighton and Trevor Howard. Early next month: Sir John Gielgud's The Winter's Tale...
...turning point came with the emergence of the contrasting twin giants: John Gielgud, whose melodious, grief-numbed Hamlet was this generation's finest, and Laurence Olivier, whose body English makes him Shakespeare's Angry Young Man, forever Hotspur, whether he is a sinuously satanic Richard III, a black-as-thunder Macbeth, or a plangent patriot King, Henry V. Not far behind these triumphs are Maurice Evans' sterling-silver-tongued Richard II, Ralph Richardson's roguishly intelligent Falstaff and Michael Redgrave's mettlesome, love-ravished Antony. They are the leaders of today's functional Shakespeare...