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...Charles Laughton. Guests: Elvis Presley, Dorothy Sarnoff, Amru Sani...
...first-magnitude stars include Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Shelley Winters. Only the season will tell whether the plays and players look as good on the boards as they promise on paper. But with the curtain about to rise on the 1956-57 season, the only thing Broadway seemed to lack was enough theaters to go around for all the shows that producers want...
...neither intellectual nor physical. Fellow Actor Orson Welles thinks it comes down to "chic-style without pressure." But stars of Harrison's brilliance are formed, like diamonds, under great pressure. As with diamonds, the process takes time-and warmth. "Rex himself must be a pretty nice guy," Charles Laughton argues, "or he couldn't give out the warmth and delight in life and humanity he does every night. You can't fake that...
...garmentworkers hung out of the windows across the street to catch a glimpse. When Malenkov raised his hand and grinned his broadest, the walls echoed with a welcoming cheer. "He was so clean-cut," one sewing-machine operator told a reporter later, "he looked like an American." "Like Charles Laughton," gushed another, "only younger and more jovial...
...scenes are those in which he looks back on his past with a resigned stoicism. "Home," he says wistfully, "I have no home." Lobo, too, is troubled. Though he starts as a noble savage, soon his soft-heartedness gets the best of him. Troubled by his feelings toward Miss Laughton, he can never be fierce as a monster should. Further encumbered (in a way reminiscent of French classical tragedy) by class prejudices that stifle his love for Miss Laughton, Lobo makes a poor rival for such monsters as King Kong and Mighty Joe Young...