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Brits on wiltshire boulevard: working holiday in the sun
But WWII was the beginning of the end of the British set in Hollywood. The age of the perfect gentleman had passed. The war created a new kind of Englishman, who now began to turn up in Hollywood, while the … Continue reading
waterloo sunset in hollywood
The golden era of the British in Hollywood in the 1930’s… …Then the Munich agreement was signed, and the crisis, for the time being, was over. The agreement, now historically damned as a symbol of appeasement, was nonetheless greeted with … Continue reading
ustinov: everybody’s talkin’
…Peter Ustinov’s first three plays were produced while he was in military service during World War Two. House of Regents, a story of Russian exiles, reached the stage largely because James Agate, the waspish but influential critic of the Sunday … Continue reading
Ustinov in the army: not combat ready.
…At nineteen Ustinov got a job at The Player’s Theatre, doing a comic skit called The Bishop of Limpopoland, which dealt with an Anglican bishop who had been to Africa so long that he couldn’t imagine anyone not being able … Continue reading
ustinov: the cosmopolitan
…If Peter Ustinov’s life seemed relatively simple and uncomplicated for so versatile a character, his ancestry certainly was not. On the little finger of his left hand, he wore a gold ring with family crest dating from the time of … Continue reading
bonds that tie
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) 007’s Big Screen Debut in the USA The sixth of the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming—begun in 1953 with Casino Royale, later used to relaunch/reintroduce the movie franchise in … Continue reading
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