He might ha' been that, or he might ha' been this, but they love and they hate him for what he is

[sovay]

I wanted to write about movies after I finished my work for the day, but it looks like I just burnt out temporarily and should go to bed instead. Bryan Cranston looks more like Denholm Elliott every time I see another picture of him. It's the general bone structure, but specifically the way his face has broken up into lines and his eyebrows fit into them, something about the line of his mouth as well; in that screencap, the glint in his eye. Attempting to locate some pictures of Elliott from the '70's to prove my point, I found instead the prettiest portrait of a youthful Denholm Elliott I have ever seen in my life:



That's younger than I've ever seen him on film. 1951 in New York—he must have been playing Hugo and Frédéric in Christopher Fry's Ring Round the Moon (1950), which I have read and thought I owned but do not see on the playscript/screenplay shelf behind me. I wonder if that means it's in a box or if I have lost it. I don't see A Winter's Tale (1951) or The Dark is Light Enough (1954), either, but I don't believe Elliott was in either of those.

I need to rest up before the weekend. Bed.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Jean Anouilh was everywhere in repertory when I was a teen. Him and GBS and Terence Rattigan: the absolute staples of provincial theatre. Sadly not Christopher Fry, except by virtue of his translations. I was thinking about this the other day, as another measure of how radically life has changed.

[sovay]

Jean Anouilh was everywhere in repertory when I was a teen.

My father imprinted formatively on his Antigone. I am honestly not sure I have ever seen him staged. My mother showed me the 1964 film of Becket in high school.

Sadly not Christopher Fry, except by virtue of his translations.

I continue to feel fortunate that I got to see The Lady's Not for Burning locally, especially since it was part of my discovery of derspatchel.

I was thinking about this the other day, as another measure of how radically life has changed.

Rattigan is coming back into fashion, if it helps. (I saw a really impressive livecast of The Deep Blue Sea by the National Theatre for my birthday.) I feel like Shaw has never gone away, but I can't speak for Anouilh.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

My wife imprinted on the 1974 A&E production of The Lady's not for burning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071736/) with Richard Chamberlain. After some years of searching, I eventually acquired a DVD copy of decent quality (albeit dubious legality). Happily, it seemed unvisited by the Suck Fairy, and remained excellent. If you're interested, I could get you a copy.

[sovay]

Happily, it seemed unvisited by the Suck Fairy, and remained excellent. If you're interested, I could get you a copy.

At the moment I think I am content with my memories of my formative production at the Theater at Monmouth when I was thirteen and Theatre@First's production which partly overwrote it in 2011, but I appreciate the offer!