Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer had said-and the newspaper quoted him: "Romeo and Juliet is not a play for aging prima donnas. Juliet should be played by a girl of 14." Producer Peter Brook was only half-serious about wanting a child-Juliet; he was mostly trying to attract attention to his forthcoming season at Stratford-on-Avon's Memorial Theater. But next morning his phone rang and a breathless voice said: "My name is Claire Bloom. It said in the papers that you wanted a girl of 14 to play Juliet...
Last week Director Joe Mankiewicz (All About Eve, A Letter to Three Wives) finished shooting a $2,000,000 picture that takes a calculated risk of being a box-office flop. Julius Caesar is the first effort by M-G-M to film Shakespeare since Romeo and Juliet lost more than a quarter of a million dollars in 1936. Shakespeare is supposed to be box-office poison, but Mankiewicz and Producer John Houseman think they have a sure-fire script. Says Mankiewicz: "It's a good, rip-snorting piece of blood & thunder coupled with eternally new and true...
...currently being acclaimed in London for her Juliet in an Old Vic production of Romeo and Juliet...
...definitely off-"for the present." Bubbling Aly called for champagne "for everyone on a day like today." "There is none cold," a servant whispered. Aly waved reporters to a tray of aperitifs, turned to Rita and said: "Come, they want to photograph us on the balcony like Romeo and Juliet...
...house, Truman told aides later, is an expression he has used since boyhood, but he does not remember the source. It is a colloquialism, at least as old as Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene V. Capulet, Juliet's father, is angry because she refused to marry his choice, Paris. He tells her: "Graze where you will, you shall not house with...