Word: ophelia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others chosen for major parts were Lisa Rosenfarb '57 as Gertrude, John Fenn '57 as Horatio, Robert Jordan '59 as Laertes, Richard Smities '57 as Polonius, and Edith Iselin '59 as Ophelia. Stephen Aaron '57 will direct the entire production...
...this knight errant is jousting when he refers to Miss Monroe's hip-flipping talents as "ethereal." Perhaps a remake of Hamlet is proposed? If so, the event would truly be an occasion to make the Danes melancholy, for the dramatic climax would, no doubt, be Marilyn as Ophelia frisking about the lily pads clad in a bikini for a real razzle-dazzle death scene. At this point, the profit-sharing prince would no doubt be moved to make his quietus with a bare bodkin...
...triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills...
...effective because she acts with amazing restraint. Hertha Thiele, as the tear-stained orphan, is occasionally coy, but she is usually anemic, thus revealing her psychological state. Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that the acting style of twenty-five years ago is not always ludicrous...
...Mansfield, in Manhattan to star in Broadway's spoof of fame in Hollywood, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, confided that her heart really goes out to the lower animals. Sighed she wistfully: "All I have now is a great Dane, a Chihuahua, three cats named Sabina. Romulus and Ophelia, and a rabbit known as Bublitchki. I had a pink poodle, Bon Bon, which just died after we had it dyed pink to match my pink Jaguar ... I also had some mice, but somebody let them out in Atlantic City...