1882: Actress
Dame Sybil Thorndike was born in Gainsborough, Lincs.
| 1882: Actress
Dame Sybil Thorndike, pictured, was born in Gainsborough, Lincs.
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Dame Sybil Thorndike wedi arwyddo a Lewis Casson, roedd criw yw Old Vic wedi dod i actio Macbeth ym Mangor ym 1941.
She appeared as another dame,
Dame Sybil Thorndike, in the movie My Week With Marilyn.
That was
Dame Sybil Thorndike's advice to Marilyn Monroe in the delicious 1957 movie, "The Prince and the Showgirl." (Laurence Olivier was Monroe's co-star but the less said about that, the better.
The older characters are filled out by some giants of the 20th century English stage, including Max Adrian, Lewis Casson, and Casson's wife, the magnificent
Dame Sybil Thorndike as the Nurse.
After the war he was introduced to the theatre by
Dame Sybil Thorndike and became a well known character actor.
"It's about intimacy dear, not taking the roof off,"
Dame Sybil Thorndike said to me at the end of a very taxing (and very lonely) drama examination at LAMDA, where I had over-acted Rumour's speech from Henry the Fourth Part 2, and drew a critical rebuke.
While fellow cast including
Dame Sybil Thorndike looked on, the director and his leading lady clashed, and Clark, just 23 at the time and fresh out of Oxford, became a go-between, winning the trust of the emotionally fragile starlet.
Williams is astonishing and is bound to receive her third Oscar nomination, while Dench amuses as kind actress
Dame Sybil Thorndike and Branagh relishes hamming it up as Larry, delivering lines like: "Trying to teach Marilyn to act is like trying to teach Urdu to a badger."
While fellow cast including
Dame Sybil Thorndike looked on, the director and his leading lady clashed, and Clark, just 23 at the time and fresh out of university, became a go-between, winning the trust of the emotionally fragile starlet.
While fellow cast members, including
Dame Sybil Thorndike, looked on, the director and his leading lady clashed, and Clark, just 23 at the time and fresh out of Oxford, became a go-between, winning the trust of the emotionally fragile starlet.