Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JULIET DUFF...
Producer Brook asked her to come and see him. He gravely explained to the child -who, nevertheless, looked considerably older than her 14 years-that what he was really after was an experienced actress who might possibly pass for the age of Shakespeare's Juliet.* He now admits: "Little did I realize I was talking to exactly the girl I wanted, but just a few years too early...
...Atlantic. Even those who did not like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives as "poignant," "delightful," "brilliant," "touching," "charming," "perfect." This week in London, Claire is winding up the second month of a triumphant Romeo and Juliet at the historic Old Vic theater. She has been hailed as the most enchanting Juliet in memory...
...beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet, another wrote that she gives "a sweet new agony to the supreme love-drama in the English language." A third tried to describe her as having "the air of being untouched by human hands. She has, quite instinctively, an uncrushable air of absolute innocence...
Poison Speech. Minor roles at the Oxford Playhouse followed. Claire tried out for Webster's The White Devil, which was being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...