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Topic History of: Olivier Awards - Larry was crap
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JK2006 |
Funnily enough, at this moment on BBC2 - A Man For All Seasons, a movie of similar era illustrating superb acting by Paul Scofield, Leo McKern and, finest of all, Wendy Hiller. |
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JK2006 |
Robin's The Wrong People is well worth reading. |
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hedda |
was never that impressed but he did some good acting. Always wondered why he had such a reputation though.
Met him at Robyn Maughan's in Brighton once in my never ending brush with fame moments. |
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JK2006 |
Yes; Rebecca was fantastic (I'm wondering whether I'll be asked to star in the "remake" called Rebekah) but Olivier (in a very difficult part) over shadowed by Fontaine, Sanders and the utterly divine UNDER acting Mrs Danvers. I thought even the dog had a better part. |
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Pru |
I do agree. He wasn't too bad early on, in things like Rebecca, but once he was glorying in his 'world's best actor' fame he was allowed to wildly over-act in front of the movie cameras. He always seemed to need a silly false nose, or a fake moustache, or a gimmicky accent or an eye-catching walk. And many people in Hollywood fell for it. Actually the same happened with his widow Joan Plowright - she had a spell where she'd appear as a range of exotic 'foreign' characters, all with the same OTT accent and the eye-popping over-acting, and she was feted by the critics. I bet she couldn't believe she was getting away with it. |
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