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...invalid spinster Lady Constance Lytton, Judy Parfitt provides the uncanniest sense of the past recaptured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIEWPOINTS: Femmes Fatales | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...triter lines-to the heights of a new Pagliacci. Most critics agreed that Olivier, with real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears, including those of Actor Olivier's wife Vivien Leigh, were strictly accorded to Sir Laurence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Most Angry Fella | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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