Word: pantomimist
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Those TV actors, with their bland gesticulations and hammy facial expressions, could certainly take a lesson or two from Marcel Marceau, the French pantomimist, the most famous living mine, if not the greatest...
When my manager, Ronald A. Wilford, brought me to the United States in 1955 for my first appearance on this continent, he advised me that in the majority of instances I would be introducing an art form that might be totally unfamiliar to most of my audience. The pantomimist was a "rara avis" here--but I soon discovered from talking with many people who visited me backstage that this was only because most of them had been unfamiliar with the term. What they had not realized was that here in America they had seen some of the greatest pantomimists...
Marcel Marceau, L.H.D., pantomimist...
...other record is an album with a hefty price tag ($4.98), The Best of Marcel Marceao-teasingly close to the spelling of the name of the famed French pantomimist. A typical excerpt goes something like this...
Sabbey entertained the students with a string of terrible reminisces about his vaudeville days as a pantomimist -- "The only reason Marcel Marceau made it and I didn't was Marceau's idea of painting his face white." He explained that the fellow they were waiting for was out purchasing ladies' undergarments...