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The Whisperers (1967, Forbes)
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Dame Edith Evans, an English actress of the stage and film. Between 1964 and 1968, she was nominated for three Academy Awards. She died on this day of October 14th in 1976 at the age of 88.
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The Scottish actor James Donald was born in Aberdeen on May 18th 1917.
Donald grew up in Galasheils and was schooled at Rossall School on Lancashire's Fylde coast. He briefly attended McGill University in Montreal, but his asthma meant he transferred to Edinburgh University.
Donald originally intended to be a teacher but seeing Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Dame Edith Evans in The Late Christopher Bean made him decide to be an actor.
He began seeing as many shows as possible and studied at the London Theatre Studio for two years.
Donald starred in may films from the 40's through to the 60's, the pick of which are, The Vikings, King Rat and The Great Escape, I know many of you will not have heard of him but the short clip here has the actor saying the memorable last words in Bridge on the River Kwai......
"What have I done?
Donald retired from acting in part because of a lifelong asthmatic condition. He grew grapes and made wine in his farm in Hampshire. He died of stomach cancer on august 3rd 1993.
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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1
Josephine Baker: Une vent de folie (1927 Paris); Dora in La créole (1934 Paris); Ziegfeld Follies (1936 Broadway)
Dame Edith Evans: Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1925 Old Vic); Orinthia in The Apple Cart (1929 Malvern Festival); Gwenny in The Late Christopher Bean (1933 West End); Epifania in The Millionairess (1940 National Tour UK)
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Josephine Baker:
where do i even begin, i mean it’s josephine fucking baker. she was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture. she had a pet cheetah named chiquita. she aided french resistance in world war two. she was bisexual and had relationships with colette and frida kahlo. she was a civil rights activist and friends with mlk. she refused to perform for segregated audiences
Edith Evans:
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When I was at the old Vic, I had a number of walk-ons and understudy roles—one of which was in Henry VIII with Sir John Gielgud, Harry Andrews and Dame Edith Evans. That was the production when they famously all dried on the first night. All of them—John, Harry and Edith—in that long scene between Wolsey, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. It must be written up somewhere because it was a horrific moment.
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Dame Edith Evans (February 8, 1888 – October 14, 1976)
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Who is James Maxwell? See a lot of posts about him on your blog- is he your Blorbo?
He is my blorbo, my only real blorbo (as in person I think of in relation to everything and will be very annoying about on the internet at the least encouragement).
There are a whole lot of James Maxwells, but my blorbo is not the Scottish Mathematician or the author or the footballer, he was an Actor in old British telly. I like him a lot.
(I have no explanation for myself.)
He has a good face, though, right? XD
Anyway, he was technically an American, but his family were all actually from Nova Scotia, and he wound up in the UK and worked here as an actor, director, and writer from 1950 until his death in 1995. (He also has some very nice obituaries. I like a man with a nice obit. /o\ /cries)
I like to watch him in things and make gifs of his face, and also find out about him irl because though he seems to have liked to claim he was very Ordinary and Average, he was not!
He was super-brainy but ran away from a career in academia
because he saw Dame Edith Evans on stage in New York one time and then literally within 1-3 days max got himself on a liner to the UK to land up at the Old Vic Theatre School and managed to get a place there.
he helped to found a pretty cool and important theatre in Manchester, which took him and his Old Vic Theatre School friends 25 years but they kept at it till it really happened.
he is now a ghost at the Royal Exchange Theatre that he helped to found and has a tv credit from beyond the grave (if you believe people who make Most Haunted)
He also seems to have taught at drama school in London for a while and additionally helped support quite a few other people in their careers.
Anyway, he was a very good Henry VII for the BBC and he cheers me up a lot when I feel ill (which is almost all the time).
He was in Doctor Who one time, but it was in "Underworld" so understandably he is not much known from that!
he also likes attaching appalling fake hair to his face and also falling over and crying.
When he was in Dracula he got upset about flowers and needed a lot of tea and a blanket to cope
somehow i like this man ridiculously anyway. <3
anyway, this is why most people don't ask me who James Maxwell is any more. XD
<3
#james maxwell#replies#asks#human nxture#best kind of ask!!#gif#apologies#yes he is my blorbo whoops#i have many gifs
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THE QUEEN OF SPADES (1949) - Restored Gothic thriller with an eerie supernatural edge, currently streaming on Shudder and absolutely fantastic if you’re a fan of atmospheric classic horror. Anton Walbrook and Dame Edith Evans star and are seen in this image.
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If the criterion is grandness and grandness alone, then the grandest dame of them all was someone like Dame Edith Sitwell, the poet, who back in the 1950s, at the height of her grandness, would intimidate her enemies by regarding them through a pair of lorgnettes. These days, it’s a term generally reserved for elderly female actors – hearty, salty, imperious. Americans can do it, of course – Elaine Stritch, so very great, so very grand – but may struggle to ascend to the highest reaches of haughtiness achieved by a Dame Maggie Smith or a Dame Edith Evans. You can be a national treasure, meanwhile, without being a grande dame (fight me on this, but I’d say Dame Judi falls into this category). Which brings us to Dame Angela Lansbury.
On Tuesday, news broke of her death aged 96, triggering an outpouring of affection and sadness for a cherished figure and one of the last of her generation of performers. Mind-bogglingly, Lansbury started her career in 1944 after moving to the US from Britain during the blitz and landing a role, as a teenager, alongside Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944). That same year, she appeared in the movie Gaslight, with Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman. She was around for the heyday of MGM musicals – I remember as a child seeing her on TV in the 1946 movie The Harvey Girls, alongside Judy Garland, and finding it impossible to connect her with the character from Murder, She Wrote. By the time she played the teapot in Beauty and the Beast in 1991 – at a mere 66 – her longevity alone had already made her beloved.
In the US, where Lansbury remained after emigrating, she was both national treasure and grande dame. It feels churlish to say this, but as a musical performer, she was never quite my cup of tea. I saw her on Broadway in 2009 in a production of A Little Night Music, co-starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, who did a quite frightening rendition of Send in the Clowns. Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt was a terrible old ham, yukking it up for an audience beside itself at the miracle of her being alive. I was immune to her Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd. Her cameo at the end of the movie Mary Poppins Returns, meanwhile, was the absolute bloody kitchen sink in that mess of a movie. On the other hand, I loved her in Murder, She Wrote.
I’m not sure what this is. Perhaps something to do with TV being able to absorb greater levels of camp than musical theatre. This seems counterintuitive, I know; Broadway is supposed be the ground zero of camp, except it isn’t, not really. The material in a musical is so florid to begin with, the performances have to be very tightly controlled to remain credible. There is a fine line in a musical between thrilling theatricality and everything going Jack Sparrow.
For me, in her theatre roles, Lansbury had too much self-awareness. There was an archness to her performances that seemed to wink at the audience and suggest, well, this business of singing and acting is faintly ridiculous, after all – and of course, when you play it like that, so it is. As Jessica Fletcher, however, she convinced me totally. I liked her as the teapot. Given her god love ’er status, it’s a miracle she dodged being cast as a batty old dame in the endless current remakes of Poirot, but it’s possible I may have liked her in those.
Who is left? Dame Julie Andrews (87). Dame Eileen Atkins (88). Dame Joan Plowright (92). Bassey! I’m putting Dame Shirley (85) on the list, as you must. Anyone who sings I Who Have Nothing draped head to toe in mink and covered in diamonds deserves, possibly, the crown of grandest of them all. Perhaps that was my problem with Lansbury. Never fully a leading lady in Hollywood, or quite a doyenne of the theatre, she seemed modest, likable, approachable. Not a grande dame of the first rank, perhaps, but something warmer and friendlier, whose loss may be more keenly felt.
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O espírito de Natal transforma-se em uma celebração musical da vida, nesta empolgante adaptação de Um Conto de Natal, o adorável clássico de Charles Dickens. O maldoso e sarcástico Ebeneezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) tem sempre a cara fechada e uma atitude falsa para qualquer um que cruze seu caminho. Mas naquela noite de Natal, ele vai conhecer o terrível destino que o aguarda se continuar com sua avareza. Um a um, os fantasmas do Natal Passado, Presente e Futuro levam o atônito Ebeneezer a uma incrível viagem no tempo – mostrando a ele, em uma única e mágica noite, o que levaria a vida inteira para ensinar. Enriquecido por onze alegres canções e um elenco que inclui Sir Alec Guinness, Dame Edith Evans e Kenneth More, esta adorável história certamente vai encantar a vida de jovens e adultos por muitas gerações.
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Day 81 - at Mandailles
The heavy morning rain meant even Roja was happy to doze a bit longer and let me concentrate on reading. I’ve just started James Crawford’s The Edge of the Plain, subtitled ‘how borders make and break our world’. I have read books that approach this theme before, and generally been disappointed, but if the first chapter is anything to go by, this is good.
The first chapter concerns Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, ‘a land with no borders, an ancient land, yet still living, still subsisting, but within the confines of four modern nation states. ‘
Crawford considers whether a nation can survive without land or territory.
For a good part of the chapter he interviews Hans Ragnar Mathisen, who in 1975, took a year to create a map of Sápmi, a simplified result is in the picture below. It’s clearer in an image in the previous post, which I needed to link to from my review.
Coincidentally, there was another interesting map I came across last night when watching the end credits of the last episode of Reservation Dogs, called Indian County. Both maps in images below.
I watched a film last night that is worth mentioning also.
The Queen of Spades (1949) is an adaptation of Pushkin’s ghost story, that Tchaikovsky turned into an opera. The director is Torold Dickinson (also of Gaslight) and it is evident from the casting and the cinematography that their craft has been learnt in the silent era, the lighting, costumes, set design. Dame Edith Evans plays the Countess beautifully. The scene in which Suvorin desperately tries to get her to reveal the secret of the cards is magnificent.
What results is a gothic thriller of the highest order, yet strangely overlooked..
Anyway… Roja’s patience eventually ended and I donned the waterproofs and headed out, on the trail up the Jordanne valley towards the pass, Col de Cabre. But first, I called into the épicerie here in the village for some bread. It’s a good little shop, with lots of artisanal produce, which are expensive, but look very good; cheeses, jams, beers and wines. A bit like Askham Stores, but with a bigger alcohol choice..
There is a group of athletes at the Gite just behind the campervan aire. I was trying to guess what sport they represented, as were young men and women, with France tracksuits, not particularly grand, but decent enough. I guessed track athletes, but was somewhat inaccurate, they are trail runners. I got talking to a guy in the store, and he said they were semi-professional and did several training camps like this each year. It did seems strange they had postponed their morning on the hill due to the weather, though there was lightning around. In the afternoon, just before they departed, a few of them did go out.
Roja and I were out for three hours in the end, and avoided the heaviest of the rain, which set in again when we got back. So it was a laidback lunch, Lancashire cricket on the radio, rugby sevens stream from Toulouse, and a catch-up with some book reviews that I was behind on.
Tomorrow’s weather pattern is similar, I doubt whether we will be as fortunate in avoiding a soaking as today.
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Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct by Jack O'Brien
“I am the director,” a young man protested to Dame Edith Evans as she was giving instructions to the other cast members of a play in which she starred.
“Never mind,” she answered. “We’ll find something for you to do.”
Jack O’Brien offers this (likely apocryphal) anecdote while making two points – that the profession of director wasn’t invented until the twentieth century, and that people still…
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More screenshots from The Queen of Spades (1949)
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Scottish actor Russell Hunter was born 18th February 1925 in Glasgow.
Born Russel Ellis in Glasgow, Hunter's childhood was spent with his maternal grandparents in Lanarkshire, until returning to his unemployed father and cleaner mother when he was 12. He went from school to an apprenticeship in a Clydebank shipyard. During this time, he did some amateur acting for the Young Communist League before turning professional in 1946.
He was with the left wing Unity theatre, and due to appear in The Plough And The Stars at the first Edinburgh Festival in 1947. At the last moment, the Arts Council withdrew funding - but the show had to go on. It therefore became part of the inaugural Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the posters were altered from "Sponsored by the Scottish committee of the Arts Council" to read "Eliminated by ... "
Hunter worked in repertory theatre and Scottish variety before making his film debut in Lilli Marlene (1950). He appeared with Archie Duncan in The Gorbals Story, which was a major London success the same year. Rarely without work, he was particularly thrilled to join Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company, and loved working with Peggy Ashcroft and Dame Edith Evans. Particularly suited to clown roles, he treasured a review by the Sunday Times's Harold Hobson, who wrote that he had "never seen such a lovely little Bottom".
Of course with his comic style Russell was well suited to the Panto circuit and appeared in numerous performances, many with his wife, the Scottish actress Una MacLean, herself a great actor and comedian.
The role of Lonely - the dirty, unkempt character in Callan made Hunter a household name, and he would remain recognised by the public for that part for the rest of his life, but his bread and butter was Scottish Theatre and he was rarely without work.
Although in the advanced stages of cancer, Hunter's last theatrical stint was in the Reginald Rose play 12 Angry Men back where it all started at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2003, he also appeared in the romantic comedy, American Cousins that year, playing an Italian grandfather in a Glasgow chip shop.
Russell Hunter passed away in Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on February 26th 2004.
A wee bit trivia to wrap up this post up, Peter Jackson is said to have remembered the series Callan from his youth and used Hunter's portrayal of Lonely as the model for the look of Gollum, with the bug eyes, the thin wavering lips, and the sniveling personality, I don't know how much credence to give this but they do look a wee bit similar!
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🎄📯Watching #Fitzwilly on TCM
One of my favorite holiday movies that has everything I love, #Christmas and old Department Stores. 📯🎄🎁
Mr. Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke) is a butler who works for the unwittingly penniless philantopist, Miss Victoria Woodworth (Dame Edith Evans). Fitzwilly takes care of Miss Vicki’s estate, but she has no money left. The house staff is in on all of he schemes that Fitzwilly thinks up in order to keep money coming in to Miss Woodworth account. It’s all great until Juliette (Barbara Feldon) comes to work as Miss Vicki’s personal secretary. The big grand last scheme comes at the end when Fitzwilly decides to rob Gimbals Department Store.
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Persona Grata by Cecil Beaton and Kenneth Tynan, 1953
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