Word: cast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...
...Once, when the curtain went up on the second act of a Broadway musical, the cast was astounded to find itself playing to an empty house. During the intermission, the audience had learned of the sinking of the Titanic...
Meantime there was interminable dissatisfaction with the script. Hours were wasted while it was written on the set. Fleming confessed to a friend in the cast that at one point he thought of driving his car off a cliff he was passing, and finally went to bed for a week while M.G.M. Director Sam Wood (Good-Eye, Mr. Chips') carried...
...cinemillions had already unanimously voted that Clark Gable must play Rhett Butler. Selznick also bowed to them when he cast Olivia de Havilland as sweetish, big-eyed, thrushlike Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as smooth, anemic, intellectual Ashley Wilkes, Laura Hope Crews as futile, flustered foolish Aunt Pittypat. Two of Selznick's minor castings were inspired: 1) Thomas Mitchell as old hard-riding Gerald O'Hara, who (after his mind is gone) by sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas...
...Poles in the U. S. a faithful, tragic, Polish Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...