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Word: holbrooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the 70-year-old humorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, portraying Mark Twain, 70, in a brilliant solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Mark Twain Tonight! The reports of Mark Twain's death have been greatly exaggerated. The great humorist is delightfully alive as a platform lecturer of 70. The brilliant lookalike: Actor Hal Holbrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook, 34, makes Samuel Clemens, 70, live again for two hours in a brilliant and delightful display of recaptured Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...aura of age in Actor Holbrook's manner heightens what is ageless in Mark Twain's humor. Lighting a cigar with a furious putt-putt-putt, Holbrook spaces the tagline of a tall story from an afterthought that howlingly tops it. His performance is as pungently authoritative as the smoke from Twain's omnipresent cigar-a cigar that Actor Holbrook flourishes like a wand over two hours of delightfully recaptured Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Performer | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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