Word: gwillim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freddy Eynsford-Hill, the bumbling aristocrat who falls in love with Eliza at Ascot and thereafter spends most of his time burbling love songs on the street where she lives. Milo O'Shea, who plays her father, Alfred P. Doolittle, is a fine and feisty rogue, and Jack Gwillim manages to be both good-hearted and hopelessly stuffy, just as Colonel Pickering, that confirmed old bachelor, should be. Cecil Beaton's black-and-white costumes will always cause gasps of pleasure, and Oliver Smith's sets will forever define the boundaries of 27A Wimpole Street, where...
...ical. To preserve his life and his position he must be more clever than other men: he is the son of a regicide and knows that the throne he will inherit has been made slippery by blood. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," cries his father. David Gwillim adroitly captures all Hal's contradictions; then, like a master potter, he molds them into that noble vessel, Henry...