Word: mauriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship's doctor perform brilliantly in the cast that supports Laughton. A superb story magnificently told. Mutiny on the Bounty will undoubtedly compensate its makers in box-office cash and artistic credit for the trouble which it caused them. Peter Ibbetson (Paramount), as admirers of George Du Maurier will recall. is the story of an unfortunate young Englishman whose life is materially blighted and spiritually enriched by memories of a childhood romance. Separated from his inamorata at the age of 8, Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect, she the Duchess of Towers. Nudged...
GERALD: A PORTRAIT-Daphne du Maurier-Double day, Doran ($3). The novelist granddaughter of a Punch artist writes about her actor father...
Died. Sir Gerald du Maurier, 61, actor, manager, son of the late Artist & Novelist George du Maurier (Trilby, Peter Ibbetson); following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine...
Trilby (1894) George Du Maurier...
...matter which historically bothered Catherine II not at all. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. puts cruelty and craft in his performance of Peter III but lets his relish in clothes-swishing robes, shiny boots & swords-suggest a highschool senior in a commencement play. England's great Sir Gerald du Maurier plays a French valet. Catherine the Great, however, is Elizabeth Bergner's play. She is small (102 lb.), gentle, supple but not beautiful. In a blonde wig she is a young Catherine that might have been stamped on a bright silver coin. Possessed of extremely large brown eyes, she looks...