Word: whitebearded
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...definitely indicates, even though it does not definitively prove, that the part can be acted. Tall, commanding Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel, The Magnificent Yankee) conveys what the faithful Kent saw in Lear's countenance-authority.* Calhern also has a perfect sense of the vain, imperious whitebeard, the appalled father, the outraged king. And Calhern's Lear is often touching as well as grand. Where he falls short is with the Lear who is tormented to madness, who is humanized and transformed by suffering. Where he falls down is in his misreading of a few crucial lines...
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