Word: ophelias
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Included in the collection are pictures of Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, who played opposite him as Ophelia in a revival of "Hamlet...
...stage than in the films, would rather be on his country estate in England than anywhere. He undertook his own production of Hamlet to escape for a turn the shackles of the strictly commercial theatre. To support him he imported some middling Britons, including pretty Pamela Stanley as Ophelia, who would not dim the Howard brilliance. Unfortunately, this time there was no brilliance...
...Producer McClintic goes the palm for 1936 Shakespearean innovation. He has represented the King's ghost as a spooky silent presence whose voice croaks hollowly from an off-stage microphone. As the Queen, pneumatic Judith Anderson makes good theatrical sense. As wan and woebegone Ophelia, Lillian Gish is Lillian Gish. Jo Mielziner's articulated Hamlet set caused the form-book perusers to recall a similarly successful one by Norman Bel Geddes for Raymond Massey...
...garden club president instructs fellow-members on the psychological use of flowers in table decoration. One use is "sublimation"-"an Ophelia rose grafted onto President Herbert Hoover...
Baker: Well, tell me, in the play Hamlet, was Hamlet having an affair with Ophelia...