Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a strong suggestion, in this film Hamlet, that the movies have more than an enlarged medium to give to Shakespeare. A young (19) actress named Jean Simmons, who plays Ophelia, is a product of the movie studios exclusively. Yet she holds her own among some highly skilled Shakespeareans. More to the point, she gives the film a vernal freshness and a clear humanity which play like orchard breezes through all of Shakespeare's best writing, but which are rarely projected by veteran Shakespearean actors...
Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...
Boston's Little Theater, the Tributary, has opened its annual Shakespearean Festival with a presentation of "Othello" that is regrettably poor by all critical standards. To cast such an obviously aged man as Edward Finnegan in the role of the powerful and Jealous Moor is the grossest error in the production and one that grows increasingly ludicrous, despite the determined effort of both the friendly audience and Mr. Finnegan to rise above his handicap...
John Carradine, noted Shakespearean actor and movie star, takes over English 25, Jacobean Drama, this morning at 11 o'clock in Harvard...
...pleasure in itself, but the real delight is to watch his delight in his job. Colman is not a great actor, but he gives an arresting demonstration of what a good actor can do with great material when he cares enough for it. And in his non-Shakespearean sequences he makes the most of the particular grace, charm and likableness which have been his unique contribution to movies...