Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them. It's Love I'm After, not a mugs' picture, needs no such furtive blurbing. It is refreshing, impudent fun: a buoyant cinema making faces at its precise old aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases...
...appears as an attractive and egotistical matinee idol. One may suspect that Mr. Howard was considerably amused by his role, which obviously is a burlesque of himself. He handles this difficult assignment with discretion, plays around good-naturedly with Shakespeare, and slyly recalls his own ill-fated venture with "Hamlet." Bette Davis plays Mr. Howard's occasional fiancee, and when she is not engaged in throwing furniture at him, she is crying her eyes out over his latest amour. The amour in this case is Olivia De Havilland who uncovers a flare for comedy and a winsome appeal that...
Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination...
There Goes the Groom (RKO Radio). Burgess Meredith plays comedy as if it were Hamlet. Ann Sothern is the bride...
...first floor, Freshmen and others will find the eight plays of Shakspere sharing space with books from the personal libraries of the Presidents. Playbills, photographs, and old editions of Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and others are to be seen, together with pictures of famous actors who have portrayed the leading roles...