Word: actorly
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...that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones of the superiority of the stage. Miss Sidney, and Mr. March are truly geniuses in "Good Dame...
...sniggering, but one will have to admit her superiority to any other actress in the movies today. We say to---with the dramatic critics who claim that the stage is responsible for the geniuses of the movies. As a matter of fact we defy any fool to name any actor or actress on the stage who excels many a second rater in Hollywood...
...rare occasion when one can go to a movie and emit unrestrained guffaws for an hour and a half. "The Women in His Life" gives you this opportunity. And you can thank that superb actor Otto Kruger, who was considered a shot in the legitimate theatre. He bounds boisterously about the sets as though he were a drunken arthropod. His eyes roll diabolically, his cheeks puff, his ears crackle when he is aroused. What an actor...
...meal with the senior partner of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood would doubtless have made a much better third act than the one offered in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It is a gloomy and exceed ingly unreal courtroom scene in which A. E. Matthews, the suavest English actor on the U. S. stage, bites his nails politely while he refutes a rumbling district attorney. It ends with Lawyer Mitchell telling his wife to blow her nose. She indicates that she loves him still by borrowing his handkerchief...
...Traviata the role of the elder Germont is no test for an actor. But Thomas sang "Di Provenza," the one big aria, in model fashion, moved about the stage surely, easily, appeared properly sympathetic with the emotional frenzies of the consumptive Violetta...