WENDY HILLER TRIBUTE
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Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig.
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Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 – August 20, 1643) was a pioneer settler in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Netherlands and the unauthorized minister of a dissident church discussion group. Hutchinson held Bible meetings for women that soon appealed to men as well. Eventually, she went beyond Bible study to proclaim her own theological interpretations of sermons. Some, such as antinomianism, offended the colony leadership. A major controversy ensued and after a trial before a jury of officials and clergy, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Basil Rathbone
Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892, Johannesburg – 21 July 1967, New York City) was a South African-born British actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadway and television work; he was awarded a Best Actor Tony Award in 1948.
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor, noted for his athletic physique, distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. Initially dismissed as "Mr Muscles and Teeth", in the late 1950s Lancaster abandoned his "all-American" image and gradually came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation.
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Cyril Cusack
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and posthumous smash "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
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Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (30 September 192116 October 2007) was a Scottish stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I, and she was also the recipient of honorary Academy, BAFTA and Cannes Film Festival awards.
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Dilys Powell
Elizabeth Dilys Powell (20 July 1901 – 3 June 1995) was a British journalist, author and film critic.
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Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award.
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Eugene O'Neill
'''Eugene Gladstone O'Neill''' (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one well-known comedy (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.
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Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress. Although she starred in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater.
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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father" of modern drama and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European societies were characterized by strict mores of family life and propriety. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European tradition, alongside Shakespeare.
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Henry James
Henry James, OM ( – ) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart.
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Joel Hirschorn
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Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V. By birth, she was a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, with the style Serene Highness. To her family, she was informally known as May, after her birth month.
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Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author.
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Natalie Wood
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.
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Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress.
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Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
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Robert Bolt
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.
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Robert Morley
Robert Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen."
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Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey (25 June 19064 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, ''I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death''.
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Ronald Gow
Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole (1934).
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Sheridan Morley
Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941, Ascot, Berkshire − 16 February 2007, London) was an English author, biographer, critic, director, actor and broadcaster. He was the eldest son of actor Robert Morley and grandson of actress Dame Gladys Cooper, and wrote biographies of both. Nicholas Kenyon called him a "cultural omnivore" who was "genuinely popular with people".
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Sybil Thorndike
Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike CH DBE (24 October 1882 – 9 June 1976) was a British actress.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the naturalist movement, several poems display elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.
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Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (; February 7, 1478July 6, 1535), also Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important counsellor to Henry VIII of England and for three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. He is also recognized as a saint within the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion. He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and of Martin Luther and William Tyndale.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.
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Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent, which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf.
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Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker CBE (born 13 May 1949) is an American-British actor. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a great number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family.
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Beaconsfield
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Bramhall is a suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of about 25,500.
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Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground on the River Mersey at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, southeast of the city of Manchester. Stockport is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, and has a population of 136,082, the wider borough having 281,000.
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 1 of 11
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- Duration: 10:42
- Published: 19 Jul 2008
- Uploaded: 29 Jul 2011
- Author: ShakespeareAndMore
link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com 'The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Alan Hay ... Lane Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) It was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. This production has never been commercially available for purchase in any media format. Oscar Wilde was famous as a dazzling personality and sparking conversationalist, but he wasn't described by his contemporaries as acting like one of his characters in his plays, tho. Max Beerbohm told SN Behrman: "Well, in the beginning he was the most enchanting company, don't you know. His conversation was so simple and natural and flowing--not at all epigrammatic, which would have been unbearable. He saved that for his plays, thank heaven." WH Auden writes (reviewing a collection of Wilde's letters): The post-prison letters are more interesting than the pre-prison. To begin with, Wilde is now a lonely man, without an audience of his social and intellectual equals, so he puts into his letters what in happier times he would have expressed in talk, and the reader gets glimpses of what his conversation must have been like: "I assure you that the type-writing machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying <b>...</b>
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 2 of 11
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- Duration: 10:50
- Published: 19 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Alan Hay ... Lane Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) Richard Ross asked Wilde about 'Earnest' "What sort of play are we to expect?" the playwright answered: "It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy." "Its philosophy?" "That we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981.
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 3 of 11
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- Duration: 10:57
- Published: 21 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. This segment includes her famous lines "Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone" and "A handbag?" Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Dame Wendy Hiller (Mrs. Ronald Gow) had a very distinguished stage career, and many fine television appearances. Despite much success in films, especially early on, she preferred the stage. Retired in 1992, she died at age 90 in 2003. A nice tribute to her here: www.youtube.com Wendy Hiller is the only impersonator of this role who does not make me wish I was watching Dame Edith Evans. See Edith Evans do this very same scene here: www.youtube.com link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981.
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 4 of 11
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- Duration: 10:32
- Published: 21 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Alan Hay ... Lane Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. The actor (and manager) Geroge Alexander first presented this play with a one act curtain raiser by Langdon Mitchell. Wilde had submitted a four-act play, and was told to cut it down to three acts. He complied and most of the cutting involved folding the second and third acts into one--the second act as exits today. Wilde's son Vyvyan reconstructed the original 4-act version, (it survived in a German translation and from copies of Wilde's early drafts, where Lady Bracknell was then called Lady Brancaster). Some excellent stuff got cut! such as these exchanges: Jack: I would like, Miss Fairfax, to take advantage of Lady Brancaster's temporary absence. Gwendolen: Yes, Mr. Worthing, I would certainly advise you to do so. Jack: (A little taken aback.) Ahem!...I hope that what I am going to say to you will not be in any way a shock to you. Gwendolen: Oh! I am sure it won't. I have never been <b>...</b>
Pygmalion 1938 - "Not bloody likely - I'm going in a taxi"
It must have been shocking to hear the b word in the more respectable era of the 1930s. Leslie Howard is quite sinister and misanthropic in this movie and Wendy Hiller is hilarious as the cockney girl trying to become a lady. This is the classic speech where she tries to sound posh but just ends up using a posh voice and common vocabulary to regale the vicar's tea party with tales of her dissolute family life: "It was them who pinched it what done her in"...
Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller (1938) 1/10
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 5 of 11
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- Duration: 10:53
- Published: 21 Jul 2008
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a near duplicate upload of this video is here: www.youtube.com "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. On the opening night of this play the actor who created the role of Merriman recalled "My first speech, 'Mr. Ernest Worthing hs just driven over from the station. He has brought his luggage with him,' was recieved with the loudest and most sustained laugh that I have ever experienced, culminating in a round of applause; and as I came off Wilde said to me, 'I'm glad you got that laugh. It shows they have followed the plot.'" This tightly constructed and intricately crafted play is of the sort that some commentators dismissively call a "pièce bien faite", but Wilde's doesn't suffer from any obvious or contrived formula. He plotting in very logical and convincing, but much of it moves with surprises--an example of such is the one described above, utilizing a very minor character to move the plot along, thus artfully <b>...</b>
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 6 of 11
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- Duration: 10:49
- Published: 21 Jul 2008
- Uploaded: 26 Jul 2011
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. The actor (and manager) Geroge Alexander first presented this play with a one act curtain raiser by Langdon Mitchell. Wilde had submitted a four-act play, and was told to cut it down to three acts. He complied and most of the cutting involved folding the second and third acts into one--the second act as exits today. Wilde's son Vyvyan reconstructed the original 4-act version in 1957, (it survived in a German translation and from copies of Wilde's early drafts--and offered many more opportunities for the actors to eat on stage). Some excellent stuff got cut! here's a bit: Cecily: ....Miss Prism and I lunch at 2 off some roast mutton. Algernon: I fear that would be too rich for me. Cecily: Uncle Jack, whose health has been sadly undermined by the late hours you keep in town, has been ordered by his London doctor to have 'pâté-de-foie-gras' sandwiches and 1874 champagne at 12. I don't <b>...</b>
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 7 of 11
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- Duration: 10:58
- Published: 22 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. George Bernard Shaw reviewed this play after it opened in 1895. It was the only one of Wilde's plays he did not like. Even in his late age, in the 1950s (he was only 7 years younger than Wilde) and well after the play was established as a classic of excellence, he position remained unchanged. (from 1895) "I cannot say that I greatly cared for The Importance Of Being Earnest. It amused me, of course; but unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening." Wilde liked the early (and unsuccessful) plays of Bernard Shaw. Wilde wrote to Shaw: "I have read it ['Widowers' Houses'] twice with the keenest interest. I like your superb confidence in the dramatic value of the mere facts of life. I admire the horrible flesh and blood of your creatures, and your preface is a masterpiece--a real masterpiece of trenchant writing and caustic with and dramatic instinct."
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 8 of 11
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- Duration: 10:53
- Published: 23 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. from Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying": "If a man is sufficiently unimaginative to produce evidence in support of a lie, he might just as well speak the truth at once." "Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art."
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 9 of 11
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- Duration: 10:53
- Published: 23 Jul 2008
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. from Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying": "The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society." "We are a degraded race and have sold our birthright for a mess of facts." "No great artist ever sees things asa they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 10 of 11
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"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Sydney Arnold ... Merriman Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. The actor (and manager) Geroge Alexander first presented this play with a one act curtain raiser by Langdon Mitchell. Wilde had submitted a four-act play, and was told to cut it down to three acts. He complied and most of the cutting involved folding the second and third acts into one--the second act as exits today. Wilde's son Vyvyan reconstructed the original 4-act version in 1957, (it survived in a German translation and from copies of Wilde's early drafts--and offered many more opportunities for the actors to eat on stage). Some excellent stuff got cut! here's a bit: Jack: Believe me, dear Cecily, I am acting for the best. Cecily: People always say that when they do thier worst. Jack: Child! Who taught you such a pessimistic idea? Cecily: No one; if <b>...</b>
The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 11 of 11
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link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": www.youtube.com A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. Wendy Hiller ... Lady Bracknell Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew Rosamund Greenwood ... Miss Prism Henry Moxon ... Rev Canon Chasuble Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) It was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. This is the only one of Oscar Wilde's plays free from melodrama and unconvincing moralizing. Wilde was deeply influenced by the works of Walter Pater, who wrote "the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake....For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to our moments as they pass." from "The Critic as Artist" by Oscar Wilde: "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic." "There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally." "All art is immoral." "Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment of our experience....It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection; through Art, and through <b>...</b>
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Wendy Hiller
| Name | Wendy Hiller |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Wendy Margaret Hiller |
| Birth date | August 15, 1912 |
| Birth place | Bramhall, Stockport, England |
| Death date | May 14, 2003 |
| Death place | Beaconsfield, England |
| Spouse | Ronald Gow (1937-1993) |
| Yearsactive | 1936-1993 |
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film". Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
Early years
Born in Bramhall, Stockport, in Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s. She first found success as slum dweller Sally Hardcastle in the stage version of Love on the Dole in 1934. The play was an enormous success and toured the regional stages of England. This play saw her West End debut in 1935 at the Garrick Theatre. She married the play's author Ronald Gow, fifteen years her senior, in 1937 (the same year as she made her film debut in Lancashire Luck, scripted by Gow).
Career
Stage
The huge popularity of Love on the Dole took the production to New York in 1936, where her performance attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw recognized a spirited radiance in the young actress, which was ideally suited for playing his heroines. Shaw cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara and his influence on her early career is clearly apparent. She was reputed to be Shaw's favorite actress of the time. Unlike other stage actresses of her generation, she did relatively little Shakespeare, preferring the more modern dramatists such as Henrik Ibsen and new plays adapted from the novels of Henry James and Thomas Hardy among others.In the course of her stage career, Hiller won popular and critical acclaim in both London and New York. She excelled at rather plain but strong willed characters. After touring England as Viola in Twelfth Night (1943) she returned to the West End to be directed by John Gielgud as Sister Joanna in The Cradle Song (Apollo, 1944). The string of notable successes continued as Princess Charlotte in The First Gentleman (Savoy, 1945) opposite Robert Morley as the Prince Regent, Pageen in Playboy of the Western World (Bristol Old Vic, 1946) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bristol Old Vic, 1946, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End in 1947), which was adapted for the stage by her husband.
In 1947, Hiller originated the role of Catherine Sloper, the painfully shy, vulnerable spinster in The Heiress on Broadway. The play, based on the Henry James novel Washington Square, also featured Basil Rathbone as her emotionally abusive father. The production enjoyed a year-long run at the Biltmore Theater in New York and would prove to be her greatest triumph on Broadway. On returning to London, Hiller again played the role in the West End production in 1950.
Her stage work remained a priority and continued with Ann Veronica (Piccadilly, 1949), which was another collaboration with Gow, who wrote the play with his wife as leading lady. She did a two year run in N.C. Hunter's Waters of the Moon (Haymarket, 1951–52), alongside Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. A season at the Old Vic in 1955-56 produced a notable performance as Portia in Julius Caesar among others. Other stage work at this time included The Night of the Ball (New Theatre, 1955), the new Robert Bolt play Flowering Cherry (Haymarket, 1958, Broadway, 1959), Toys in the Attic (Piccadilly, 1960), The Wings of the Dove (Lyric, 1963), A Measure of Cruelty (Birmingham Repertory, 1965), A Present for the Past (Edinburgh, 1966), The Sacred Flame (Duke of York's Theatre, 1967) with Gladys Cooper, The Battle of Shrivings (Lyric, 1970) with John Gielgud and Lies (Albery, 1975).
In 1957, Hiller returned to New York to star as Josie Hogan in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten , a performance which gained her a Tony Award nomination as Best Dramatic Actress. The production also featured Cyril Cusack and Franchot Tone. Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.
As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken (Cambridge, 1968), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts (Edinburgh, 1972), Aase in Peer Gynt (BBC, 1972) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman (Old Vic, 1975), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft. Later West End successes such as Queen Mary in Crown Matrimonial (Haymarket, 1972) proved she was not limited to playing dejected, emotionally deprived women. She later revisited some earlier plays playing older characters, as in West End revivals of Waters of the Moon (Chichester, 1977, Haymarket, 1978) with Ingrid Bergman and The Aspern Papers (Haymarket, 1984) with Vanessa Redgrave. She was scheduled to return to the American stage in a 1982 revival of Anastasia with Natalie Wood, until Wood's untimely death just weeks before rehearsals. Hiller made her final West End performance in the title role in Driving Miss Daisy (Apollo, 1988).
Film career
At Shaw's insistence, she starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. This performance earned Hiller her first Oscar nomination and became one of her best remembered famous film roles. Her 1939 nomination marked the first time a British actress in a British film had been nominated for an Academy Award. She was also the first actress to utter the word "bloody" in a British film, when Eliza utters the line "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!". She followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, Major Barbara (1941) with Rex Harrison and Robert Morley. Powell and Pressburger signed her for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), but a pregnancy led to the casting of Deborah Kerr. Determined to work with Hiller, the film makers later teamed her with Colonel Blimp star Roger Livesey in I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), which became a classic of British cinema.Despite her early film success and offers from Hollywood, she returned to the stage full-time after 1945 and only occasionally accepted film roles. With her return to film in the 1950s, she portrayed an abused colonial wife in Carol Reed's Outcast of the Islands (1952), but had already transitioned into mature, supporting roles with Sailor of the King (1953) and a memorable victim of the Mau Mau uprising in Something of Value (1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film Separate Tables (1958), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win "never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me." She received a third Oscar nomination for her performance as the simple, unrefined, but dignified Lady Alice More, opposite Paul Scofield as Thomas More, in A Man for All Seasons (1966). She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic Toys in the Attic (1963), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as the elder spinster sister in a film which also starred Dean Martin and Geraldine Page.
She received a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the domineering, possessive mother in Sons and Lovers (1960). Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress. Other notable roles included a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi Germany with her dying husband in Voyage of the Damned (1976) and the formidable London Hospital matron in The Elephant Man (1980).
Television career
Hiller made numerous television appearances, in both Britain and in the United States. In the 1950s and 1960s, she performed in episodes of American drama series such as Studio One and Alfred Hitchcock Presents among others. In 1965, she starred in an episode of the acclaimed dramatic series Profiles in Courage (1965), in which she played Anne Hutchinson, a free-thinking woman charged with heresy in Colonial America. In Britain, during the 1960s, she appeared in the drama series Play of the Month, as well as on the children's TV programme Jackanory, reading the stories of Alison Uttley.Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Richard II (1978), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in Miss Morrison's Ghosts (1981) and the BBC dramatizations of Julian Gloag's Only Yesterday (1986) and the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent (1986), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane. This performance earned her a BAFTA nomination as Best Actress. Her last appearance, before retiring from acting, was the title role in The Countess Alice (1993) with Zoë Wanamaker.
Personal life
In the early 1940s Hiller and husband Ronald Gow moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they had two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b. 1942), and lived together in the house called "Spindles" until Gow's death in 1993. When not performing on stage or screen, she lived a completely private domestic life, often insisting on being referred to as Mrs. Ronald Gow, rather than by her stage name.Despite a busy professional career, throughout her life she continually took an active interest in aspiring young actors by supporting local amateur drama societies, as well as being the president of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company until her death. Chronic ill health necessitated her eventual retirement from acting in 1992. She spent the last decade of her life in quiet retirement at her home in Beaconsfield, where she died of natural causes at the age of 90.
Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, she was created an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1971 and raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1975. Her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she disliked personal publicity. The writer Sheridan Morley described Hiller as being remarkable in her "extreme untheatricality until the house lights went down, whereupon she would deliver a performance of breathtaking reality and expertise."
In 1996, Hiller was honoured by the London Film Critics Circle with the Dilys Powell Award for excellence in British film.
Filmography
Film
{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1937 | Lancashire Luck | Betty Lovejoy | |- | 1938 | Pygmalion | Eliza Doolittle | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress |- | 1941 | Major Barbara | Major Barbara | |- | 1945 | I Know Where I'm Going! | Joan Webster | |- | 1952 | Outcast of the Islands | Mrs. Almayer | |- | 1953 | Sailor of the King | Lucinda Bentley | also known as Single-Handed |- | 1957 | Something of Value | Elizabeth McKenzie Newton | |- | 1957 | How to Murder a Rich Uncle | Edith Clitterburn | |- | 1958 | Separate Tables | Pat Cooper | |- | 1960 | Sons and Lovers | Gertrude Morel | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role |- | 1963 | Toys in the Attic | Anna Berniers | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture |- | 1966 | | Alice More | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |- | 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Princess Dragomiroff | |- | 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Rebecca Weiler | |- | 1979 | | Allison Crosby | |- | 1980 | | Mothershead | |- | 1981 | Miss Morrison's Ghosts | Miss Elizabeth Morrison | |- | 1982 | Making Love | Winnie Bates | |- | 1983 | Attracta | Attracta | |- | 1987 | | Aunt D'Arcy | |- | 1992 | | Countess Alice von Holzendorf | |}
Television
{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1969 | David Copperfield | Mrs. Micawber | |- | 1972 | Clochemerle | Justine Putet | |- | 1980 | | Princess Vilma | |- | 1981 | Play for Today | Lady Carlion | "Country" |- | 1982 | | Evelyn | |- | 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution | Janet Mackenzie | |- | 1985 | | Lady Bracknell | |- | 1985 | | Matchett | |- | 1986 | Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy | Princess Victoria | |- | 1986 | Only Yesterday | May Darley | from the novel by Julian Gloag |- | 1986 | All Passion Spent | Lady Slane | Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actress |- | 1987 | Anne of Avonlea | Mrs. Harris | as Dame Wendy Hiller |- | 1988 | | Lady Ursula Berowne | |- | 1989 | Ending Up | Adela | |- | 1991 | | Laurentia McLachlan | |}
References
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