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Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
Julius Caesar (MGM) is the best Shakespeare that Hollywood has yet produced.* For one thing, Julius Caesar is a play that lends itself fairly easily to filming. Melodramatic rather than introspective, it is a sort of gangster picture with an ancient (44 B.C.) Roman setting. Its political-thriller plot-a bloody conspiracy, and the tyranny that is bred by lust for power-has obvious modern parallels...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford, doing her first song & dance role in 13 years in MGM's Technicolored Torch Song, struck a barstool pose with her French poodle to give shapely proof that the famed Crawford legs are still worth the price of admission...
Young Bess (MGM) is an ideal coronation-year movie. Its heroine is Elizabeth I (1533-1603), who, like the present Elizabeth, became Queen of England...