John Gielgud

Friday, 13 September 2024

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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Join the EGOT Club

The Wrap 09 Sep 2024

Farewell From Dodger Stadium.” The 18 other members of the illustrious club include Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Tim Rice, ...

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Bette Bourne obituary

The Guardian 08 Sep 2024

Instead, the all-gay, all-male company arrayed itself in gender-defying combinations of visibly secondhand gowns with junk-shop accessories ... “It wasn’t so much a question of me doing Hedy Lamarr , as of me doing John Gielgud doing Hedy Lamarr.” ....

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Sir Ian McKellen Makes Surprising Admission About 'Bxxxxy Rude' Queen Elizabeth II

Huffington Post 06 Sep 2024

Sir Ian McKellen pictured earlier this week ... “And on the few occasions I met her she was quite rude ... “But my heroes — Sir Laurence [Olivier], Sir John [Gielgud], Sir Ralph [Richardson], Sir Alec [Guinness], Sir Tyrone [Guthrie] — had fallen for it ... .

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US playwright donates £1m to save home of Shakespeare’s daughter

The Observer 05 Sep 2024

... daughter Susanna and her physician husband, John Hall, who is believed to have advised his father-in-law on medical matters ... I listened to his Hamlet, the one that John Gielgud directed, so many times.

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Food watchdog axe posh chocolates loved by the late Queen from sale due to possible deadly...

The Daily Mail 30 Aug 2024

As well as the two queens, its fans have included Princess Diana, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Stephen Fry, Adrian Lester and Lord Mandelson ... Peanuts are among the most common cause of life-threatening anaphylaxis ... .

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Artistic differences and more: A review of National Theatre Live’s The Motive and the Cue

Manila Bulletin 28 Aug 2024

Back in 1964, Sir John Gielgud, already a legend on stage and for interpreting Shakespeare, was set to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet, in a modern day adaptation that would run on Broadway from April to August of that year.

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How a classy, A-list historical film turned into a $17 million hardcore porno

New York Post 15 Aug 2024

In the title role was Malcolm McDowell, who played Alex DeLarge in “A Clockwork Orange.” His co-stars included Peter O’Toole of “Lawrence of Arabia,” British stage legend Sir John Gielgud and relative newcomer Helen Mirren.

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What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

RTE 11 Aug 2024

... Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams ... It's a fact-based (and very moving) drama starring an excellent John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones.

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An irresistible mix of art and genitals! Featuring real sex (thanks to a porn baron), ...

The Daily Mail 09 Aug 2024

the 1979 biopic Caligula, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O’Toole – produced and bankrolled by Bob Guccione remains perhaps the most controversial and notorious movie ever made.

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A demented must-watch: Caligula – The Ultimate Cut reviewed

The Spectator 08 Aug 2024

It had attracted a first-rate cast – Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole, Sir John Gielgud – who all then disavowed it, as well they might, given they’d effectively made a porno.

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Plainville woman wins award from Drama Studio of London

The Sun Chronicle 07 Aug 2024

PLAINVILLE — Local woman Olivia Merritt has been given the Sir John Gielgud Bursary Award from the Drama Studio of London, where she is a first-year acting student ... .

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Caligula: The Ultimate Cut review – 1970s Roman empire sex shocker returns to the source

The Observer 07 Aug 2024

Peter O’Toole is roisteringly over the top as Tiberius, but most weird is surely John Gielgud as Nerva, Tiberius’s sorrowing and disapproving courtier in Capri. Gielgud has an expression of infinite ...

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Don’t tell Helen Mirren: why her most X-rated film is back

AOL 07 Aug 2024

Malcolm McDowell’s vicious intensity in A Clockwork Orange made him the perfect choice to play the cruel and sexually deviant Roman emperor, who taunts, “I can do anything I like, to anyone.” Peter ...

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Liza Minnelli, 78, to release bombshell memoir: Judy Garland

The Daily Mail 06 Aug 2024

In 1981, she played the leading lady in the smash hit comedy film Arthur, starring Dudley Moore as a lovably drunken playboy and John Gielgud as his acerbic butler ... John Gielgud as his acerbic butler.

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‘One of the most charismatic artists ever’: Piero della Francesca, adored by everyone from Hockney ...

AOL 05 Aug 2024

A hundred years before Summer’s Lease – on telly in 1989 with a delicious performance by John Gielgud – no bourgeois travellers knew of any such trail.