John Gielgud
JOHN Gielgud returned to Britain ' not long ago from America — where he had been playing Hamlet on Broadway for months—with His mind made up to stick to the stage and give films a miss.
When he stepped off the boat train in London ho said: “I refused to seo representatives of American film comw£,eu.l wys over there. Their offers W yttraetive, arid I think HpllywpocHs a nice place, but at prerieht it has no appeal for me.
PI lore the stage and all that goes With it, and I think my best work as an actor has been done on it. ‘.(I may do an odd film or two here, but as long as I can earn good money <>n the stage I’m sticking to it. ’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 11
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128John Gielgud Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 11
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