Word: lillis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being brilliant. It offers a properly tightened version, enhanced by Rolf Gerard's impressive, simple sets. Sir Cedric Hardwicke (plagued by laryngitis on opening night) plays his role with a slow gravity better suited to Caesar than to Shaw, but still with real authority and understanding. European-born Lilli Palmer suits both Cleopatra and Shaw. She is as kittenish as Shaw's Cleopatras always are, as physically alluring as they always should...
...latest Broadway revival. For nine months he badgered the producers with peppery cables, letters and postcards telling them just how to finance, cast and stage the play. He hand-picked Sir Cedric as Caesar (having coached him in the role in London in 1925), and gave Lilli Palmer his blessing as Cleopatra after Gertrude Lawrence brought her around for a visit last summer. He even passed on the production's Manhattan playhouse...