Word: ustinov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romanoff and Juliet (by Peter Ustinov) is the sort of title that suggests it might have inspired the rest of the show. In any case, the show itself-a comedy laid in "the smallest country in Europe" -has the Soviet ambassador's son and the U.S. ambassador's daughter falling madly in love. It has the two embassies in a predictably farcical tizzy over the news, and it has Actor-Playwright Ustinov, as the bearded, pince-nezed, messily over-adorned head of the country issuing directives to his two-man army, lending a sly hand to the romance...
Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...
...Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
...decide whether he is reading from a fairy tale or a police blotter. Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations. Bogart plays his role pretty straight; Aldo Ray is disconcertingly elfin for an alleged sex fiend; and Ustinov's mugging seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome mounting, but nothing can rescue the story from too much talk...