Word: robson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nurse Edith Cavell (Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, May Robson; TIME, Sept...
...most devastating and effective propaganda pictures ever made. Actress Neagle's Nurse Cavell is much as history made her, a lonely Englishwoman running a nursing home in Brussels when the German war machine spreads over Belgium. When the grandson of her friend Mme Rappard (May Robson) escapes from the Germans and with her help gets away to The Netherlands, she thinks her duty lies with others like him. With the help of Mme Rappard, the resourceful Countess Mavon (Edna May Oliver) and a bargeman's wife (Zasu Pitts), she organizes a large-scale underground railway whose humanitarian objectives...
...Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed William N. Robson, CBS staff director, who used such sound-effects as knifing a watermelon to sound like a stabbing. Later the Workshop became a laboratory for all of Columbia's crack directors. Reis, now a writer-director for Paramount in Hollywood, will direct three of the plays in the Festival; Robson...
These disdainful words appeared last August in a London Times editorial. Last week they might well have been eaten by their author. As produced by Mr. Goldwyn, directed by William Wyler and acted by Merle Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson, Wuthering Heights is not only readily identifiable with the book but one of the season's distinguished pictures...
...Garfield is convincing as a "tough" prize-fighter, but the picture is melodramatic and uninspired. Fleeing to Arizona to escape conviction for a murder of which he is innocent, the fighter meets the Dead End Kids, May Robson, and a blonde, who manage to revive the clean American spirit in him. Mr. Garfield's acting and the Kids' wisecracking do not prevent the picture from being overlong and overdone...