Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lionel Hampden goes hog wild again on this two finger piano stuff in "I Found A New Baby." god help anybody who plays in his new band when it gets going this spring--he believes in the fastest tempos I've heard from a jam band in a long time. It isn't good saying, only attraction to it is the tempo...
Said solemn Actor Walter Hampden, aged 60, after seeing his cinema debut as the Archbishop of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "I saw myself act and heard myself talk for the first time in my life. I looked a little different than I thought I would and my voice didn't sound the way I thought it always did. ... I was nothing to make myself say I was wonderful; but then, I don't think I was awful either...
...also has (for the first time in movies) veteran Actor Walter Hampden as the archdeacon of Victor Hugo's novel, now called the archbishop for the greater glory of the cinema. Walter Hampden, who heretofore has been suspected of scorning movies as beneath the dignity of U. S. Shakespearean Actor No. 1, made the great concession and this picture...
Charles Laughton's expert mugging, the acting of Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Hampden, and a host of new and pretty faces don't redeem the crude bungling of the psychological plot at the hands of the Hollywood hair raisers. Confidentially, it's only fair...