Word: ophelias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulling down" Evans' projection to TV size. Both men were brilliantly successful, and Evans' famed clarity of diction helped in making sense, to the untutored ear, of Shakespeare's soaring poetry. Sarah Churchill, in her first try at the role, made a surprisingly effective Ophelia, Joseph Schildkraut got pathos as well as villainy from the role of King Claudius, Ruth Chatterton was an adequate Queen Gertrude, Barry Jones bumbled happily and skillfully through his speeches as Polonius, and Wesley Addy brought objective understanding to the role of Horatio...
...still so young that she had to have the blue ration card issued to children (a source of shame and grief to her), but her Ophelia was excitingly mature. She was given a try for Laurence Olivier's film, Hamlet. She lost the part to Jean Simmons, but Moviemaker J. Arthur Rank was impressed by her, and signed her to a film contract. Her first movie was called The Blind Goddess, a run-of-the-mill picture whose memory still makes Claire wince ("I was a modern ingenue, dancing at the Savoy, that sort of nothing type of thing...
Married. Jean Simmons, 21, doe-eyed British cinemactress (Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet); and Stewart Granger, 37, No. 1 movie idol of British bobby-soxers; she for the first time, he for the second; in Tucson, Ariz...
...brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel after Sothern's death in 1933, emerged briefly on one public occasion to say to reporters...
...togged out in pullover, batter's gloves and pads, British Cinemactress Jean ("Ophelia") Simmons struck a pose while waiting her turn at bat in the contest of Pinewood Film Studio v. the Cranleigh School. Cricketer Simmons scored 14 runs, helped Pinewood win by three wickets...