Word: grenham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helps to shatter the glittering surfaces of Author Frederick Lonsdale's play by hammering them with irrelevant elaborations. His cast-with the exception of Gertrude Lawrence-does likewise. Hugh Wakefield delivers parlor witticisms with a smile more vehement than that of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting-a defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors...
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