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This accurate study of backstage ballet life is possible because the producers hit upon the idea of employing real ballet dancers to play the parts. Robert Helpmann, who is not only the biggest attraction in British ballet but also a Shakespearean actor, is given a featured role. Ludmilla Teherina plays herself, a temperamental but very luscious prima ballerina...
Though "Macbeth" was filmed well over a year ago, coming out at this time has prompted unfavorable comparisons with Olivier's "Hamlet." This is quite unreasonable, in view of the above given information and more; the two Shakespearean heroes were of a completely different emotional and intellectual nature, so is the poetry they speak, and so are the two motion pictures. Olivier's reserve would be as out of place in "Macbeth" as would Welles' turbulence in "Hamlet...
This week the U.S. theater's most successful director of Shakespeare's works (sample feat: she made a hit of the Maurice Evans Hamlet in the uncut version, running 4½ hours) is launching her most ambitious Shakespearean venture. She is sending out a motorized touring company to play Shakespeare on a scale-and with financial assurance-unprecedented by any other troupe of Broadway caliber...
Barely an hour after the shuttle started, Shakespearean Scholar Gerald Bentley wanted to lay his hands on a book about Charles I right away. He got it from Firestone in ten minutes...
...Better than the play, said some British critics of Sir Laurence Olivier's most recent Shakespearean effort: 1. Hamlet. 2. Richard III. 3. Macbeth. 4. Henry VIII. 5. Love's Labour's Lost...