Word: walbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...Herbert Wilcox) is the trade name of a light-footed, light-fingered, essentially noble Paris Apache with a Viennese accent (Anton Walbrook), whose associations with 1) a maiden pure of heart (Renee Ray), 2) a fancy lady (Ruth Chatterton), and 3) a predatory stuffed shirt (Hugh Miller) leave Montmartre's half-world a better place to live in. The Rat was originally (1924) a pot-boiled play by England's Constance Collier and Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello. On the screen it is still the same lukewarm dish...
...19th Century dances were not only authentic, but were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from her prototype's journal, from letters. In the picture she accurately mispronounces her consort's German, Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) accurately mispronounces the Queen's English, and Abraham Lincoln (Percy Parsons), jammed into a sequence with Old Glory to keep U. S. patriots happy and near RKO box-offices, accurately pronounces American...
Irene and The Joy of Living with Irene Dunne; Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers; Victoria the Great with Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle; and a covey of new celebrities including Joan Fontaine, sister of Warner Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland...
...Soldier and the Lady" brings to the screen Jules Verne's great novel, "Michael Strogoff." Akim Tamiroff as the sinister and ambitious Ogareff, Anton Walbrook as Strogoff, and Elizabeth Allen as Nadia carry difficult parts with the utmost conviction. The story of the rebellion against the Czar by Ogareff and Strogoff's efforts to frustrate it is well known to lovers of Jules Verne. The program at the University for the balance of the week is one of the best to appear there for many moons since both features rival in excellence...