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Chamberlain's benign image takes a detour to dark side
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It has been more than 30 years since Richard Chamberlain has
"murdered" anyone. And he's just beginning to realize how much fun
he has been missing.
Since 1961, Chamberlain has been the archetypical good guy:
from "Dr. Kildare," to the priest in "The Thorn Birds," to
"Aftermath," a recent CBS movie in which he was the grieving husband.
But all that is about to change - violently - Sunday.
Chamberlain assumes the role of sociopath "Preacher" Harry
Powell in the ABC remake of the film "Night of the Hunter" airing on
WLS-Channel 7, from 8 to 10 p.m. It is a role created by Robert
Mitchum in ...
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Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre Notebook
; ...Maggie B. Gale's chapter on Clemence Dane shows how she associated with celebrities...theatrical coterie in Covent Garden. Dane's ability to 'circulate at the...start to get complicated. For Gale, Dane is culturally important because she...
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Obituary: Leonard Gershe
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...writing with Addinsell in 1947, he was telling the writer Clemence Dane about his friend the photographer Richard Avedon, who...had no interest in such a career. According to Gershe, Dane responded by saying, "What a glorious idea for a musical...
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Obituary: Marius Goring
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1935), the screenplay of which was co- written by Clemence Dane, and the following year Goring had a great personal success in the West End production of Dane's play The Happy Hypocrite with a performance Michael...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Time to Remember: BINKIE WAS THE BOSS.(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...gathered at a very private garden party years ago. Enter Clemence Dane, unworldly author of such romances as The Moon is Feminine...confirmed bachelors''. ``Oh,'' gushed Miss Dane, ``it's simply lovely to be with you all.'' Then...
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Sunday Review Feature: My life with NOEL Sir Noel Coward was born 100 years ago next month. In this unprecedented interview, Graham Payn, his close companion and friend for nearly 30 years, tells Gyles Brandreth about their public and private lives
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Lorn Loraine ("Lornie", Coward's personal assistant), Gladys Calthrop (designer), Joyce Carey (actress), Clemence Dane (writer and artist) - and two men: Cole Lesley ("Coley"; initially, in 1936, Coward's dresser, ultimately...
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OBITUARY: Jenny Laird
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...distinctively clear voice). A first repertory appearance at the Brixton Theatre as Sydney, the agonised heroine of Clemence Dane's A Bill of Divorcement (1937) was followed by a series of good supporting roles in repertory and in the West End...
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ANNA KARENINA
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...cinematographer William Daniels captured her-is a continuous pleasure. Directed by Clarence Brown from a Salka Viertel-Clemence Dane script, with Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan and Freddie Bartholomew.
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Obituary: John Colicos
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...pageant. He made his professional debut in 1947 in the title role of the Montreal Repertory Company's production of Clemence Dane's play Will Shakespeare. In 1951 he became a member of the Old Vic in London and, while on tour in Helsinki, he...
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`Suspense master' Alfred Hitchcock in the spotlight.(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...John Galsworthy, Sean O'Casey (his 1932 movie version of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't make the AMC cut), Clemence Dane, Noel Coward, Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad, Josephine Tey, Daphne du Maurier (three times), Frederick Knott...
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That Shakespeare: what a character
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...atheism, state repression and Elizabethan espionage. On the stage and on the page (from plays by the likes of Clemence Dane and Snoo Wilson, to novels by such as Colin MacInnes and Anthony Burgess), fictional versions of the Bard have persisted...
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