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Edith Evans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edith Evans Edith Evans (1888-1976) was a distinguished English actress most known for her portrayals of comic character roles. Edith Evans was born in London in 1888. After finishing her schooling at the age of 15 she worked as a milliner...
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Evans, Dame Edith Mary
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Evans, Dame Edith Mary (1888–1976), distinguished English actress, who made...the stage at the Haymarket Theatre in 1974 in a programme entitled Edith Evans…and Friends.
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Dame Edith Evans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dame Edith Evans 1888-1976, English actress. After her stage debut in 1912, Evans toured with Ellen Terry. Known for her...century drama, as well as in modern works. Evans was made Dame of the British Empire in...
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Evans, Dame Edith
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Evans, Dame Edith (1888–1976) English stage and screen actress. While with the Old Vic (1925–26, 1936), Evans played many roles, including the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . She is perhaps...
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Playfair, Sir Nigel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...performances; Congreve's The Way of the World (1924), with Edith Evans ; Bickerstaffe's Lionel and Clarissa (1925), its...Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (1927), again with Edith Evans; When Crummles Played (also 1927), a burlesque of...
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Aldwych Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...outstanding success with Tons of Money , a farce by Will Evans and Valentine. In the cast were Ralph Lynn and Tom Walls...Leigh , and Maxwell Anderson's The Bad Seed (1955). Edith Evans starred in Fry's The Dark Is Light Enough (1954...
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Brook, Peter Stephen Paul
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...d (1953), with Scofield and Gielgud . Later productions included Fry's The Dark is Light Enough (1954) with Edith Evans , Anouilh's The Lark (1955) with Dorothy Tutin , and, at Stratford, Titus Andronicus (also 1955) with Olivier...
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Nares, Owen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...in Dodie Smith's Call it a Day (1935), St John Ervine's Robert's Wife (1937), in which he played opposite Edith Evans , and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca (1940), but he died suddenly before he had had time to develop his new-found...
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Banks, Leslie James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...as a player of power and restraint. Among his best parts were Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (1937), with Edith Evans as Katharina, the schoolmaster in James Hilton's Goodbye , Mr Chips (1938), John Thackeray in Barré Lyndon...
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St James's Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...During the next few years many famous players appeared at the St James's, including Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson , Edith Evans , and Noël Coward , but there were few memorable plays until 1923, when George Arliss starred in William...
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