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...audiences adore them, and the critics long ago exhausted the ordinary words of praise to describe their performances. "Let us celebrate the Cronyns," gushed the New York Daily News's Douglas Watt when they last appeared on Broadway, in 1986. But then who could say anything bad about Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, the husband and wife who, working together and separately, define acting in America...
Probably no one but Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, who have been pointing out each other's faults, professionally at least, for almost 50 years...
...Hume's always taking notes on what I do wrong," complains Tandy...
Cronyn, by contrast, goes to what many actors would call ludicrous lengths to research a part, taking endless notes in the process. "It's fascinating to watch them work," says Susan Cooper, who together with Cronyn wrote the script for Foxfire, another of the Cronyns' major Broadway successes. "Hume starts from the outside, with how a character looks and acts, and then goes inside. Jessica starts from the inside and then goes out. She feels around between the lines and is more inclined not to want an image of her character until she is through. 'Be patient with...
...various points during their marriage, the career of one has zoomed ahead of the other's. Has there ever been any envy or resentment? "No!" they both answer. "I rejoice in Hume's successes," says Tandy. "We're not really in competition. I mean, I can't play his parts, and he can't play mine -- though he tries to sometimes...