Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important of all, one does not have to close his eyes to the frequent miscasting of stars, whereby actresses twice to three times the age of Juliet are expected to play her convincingly...
Both vocally and visually, Miss de Haviland suggests the youth and freshness that the teen-aged Juliet should have. Her acting performance, however, is not an even one. In many scenes, she gets bogged down with ineffective pauses. Such a thing happens in the scene held most sacred by actresses, the balcony scene. But in other places, Miss de Haviland shows herself quite capable of natural, moving, and winning speech...
...brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel after Sothern's death in 1933, emerged briefly on one public occasion to say to reporters...
...insidiously balmy Roman spring, Karen Stone, past 50, discovers that her life is slipping away. She has been a successful actress and great beauty; now, after a ludicrous stab at playing Juliet, she is through with the stage and, even worse, aware that her beauty is dead. Lonely and anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel...
...great works down to the purely melodic passages") and expertly inflated popular selections. Working on the brisk premise that the lengthy development of themes found in the classics "is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people," Kostelanetz was able to hack Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture from its usual running time of 16 minutes to less than five...