John Gielgud

Sybil, a star in a cardie: Sybil Thorndike: A Star Of A Life by Jonathan Croall

Theatrical fame is fleeting. Unlike Gielgud and, indeed, Evans, Dame Sybil Thorndike left no significant cinematic legacy. Of her 20 or so films, only Hitchcock's Stage Fright and Olivier's The Prince And The Showgirl are shown...

Eileen Herlie: Actress who played Gertrude to Olivier's Hamlet then became queen of the daytime...

After a stage and film career of distinction on both sides of the Atlantic (including the screen role of Gertrude in Olivier's Hamlet), Eileen Herlie achieved the peak of her stardom in America as the redoubtably enduring...

A Movie A Day: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974) Has it occurred to you that there are too many...

Ahoy, squirts! To illustrate just how much Albert Finney disappears into the role of Hercule Poirot let me just say that the movie was halfway through before the nagging “I know that guy from somewhere…” locked into place and I...

SPHINX~RARE OOP VHS~LESLEY-ANNE DOWN~FRANK LANGELLA

AS ALWAYS, PLEASE READ ITEM DESCRIPTION AND TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE BIDDING. THANK YOU. FOR SALE: RARE OOP VHS OF SPHINX STARRING: LESLEY-ANNE DOWN, FRANK LANGELLA, JOHN GIELGUD IN GOOD, USED CONDITION. FROM MY PERSONAL...

Prescott's mortgage misery

A two-bedroom Central London flat the former Deputy Prime Minister bought for £740,000 with a mortgage last September has fallen in value by £100,000, say analysts. At 70, Mr Prescott is unusual in being burdened by two...

The Books: "The Story Of My Life" (Ellen Terry)

Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: The Story of My Life, by Ellen Terry This is one of my favorite books in my entire collection, just in terms of it as an object. Second only to the first-edition...

Obituary: Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie, who has died aged 90, was a vivacious Glaswegian who found fame on the West End and Broadway stages in the 1940s and 1950s, but was known to a wider audience from 1976 as seen-it-all, truth-telling Myrtle Fargate...

In London, teasing the grim reaper and staging a striptease

The new West End production of "No Man's Land," at the Duke of York's Theatre, feels somehow incomplete, while a theatrical potpourri called "La Clique" at the Hippodrome makes for an evening that is by turns clever and common,...

Win Never Apologize DVDs and books

Few knew Lindsay Anderson better than Malcolm McDowell: it was Anderson who launched McDowell's career by giving him his first starring role, as the rebellious Mick Travis in If…, winner of the 1968 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Never...

Win Never Apologize DVDs and DVDs

Few knew Lindsay Anderson better than Malcolm McDowell: it was Anderson who launched McDowell's career by giving him his first starring role, as the rebellious Mick Travis in If…, winner of the 1968 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Never...

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