М-р Хардвик

[Addeson]

“Actors must practice restraint else think what might happen in a love scene.”

Седрик, Седрик, я фигею с этой персоналии)) Под катом, цитатами, мое небольшое исследование в плане заняных биографических фактов о нем и о его персоне. Включает в себя (кто б сомневался!) упоминания Б. Шоу и Р. Мэсси (его френды) и Р. Чемберлена (который "в терновнике" и которому сэр Седирк искусно нахамил). Перевода нет (мне лень!), если вам что-то будет непонятно, я переведу. Кстати, этого хитрого человека на самом деле звали не Седрик, а Сесил Вебстер. Одно это уже его диагностирует) Кстати-50: насчет мотивов балерин и прочего цирка в плане монсеньора Слита я не так уж и ошиблась, честно говоря xDD
Ну, не обращайте внимания на то, что я так над ним смеюсь, не все у него в жизни было фонтан (мягко говоря), но такие уж мы, фанаты, нам только дай повод нафантазировать и мы еще не такое припишем человеку) О его личности - здесь мы можем разве что верить Кэрредайну (поверим?), а он говорил, что все-таки вариант "тихоня с тайным рейхстагом страстей". От энной жены: да, я не ошиблась, эта личность всегда одевалась с иголочки (что в расстроенном фанатском воображении было сразу прокачано до Слита-метросексуала)) С другой стороны... мне бы хотелось узнать побольше о какой-нибудь скандальной стороне его жизни - не говорите, что ее может не быть у актеров!
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О нем

Born Cecil Webster Hardwicke in Lye, England February 19th 1893.

A former medical student and army officer. On stage from 1905.

О страшной мечте детства

From boyhood, the actor had longed to be a circus clown. His ambition was partially realized in 1957 when he rode an elephant in the circus staged by the late Mike Todd in Madison Square Garden to celebrate his movie, "Around the World in 80 Days."

О гражданстве и любовнице

Hardwicke never abandoned his British citizenship. He once remarked with a chipper smile:
"England is my wife—America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife."

О войне, театре и Б. Шоу

Knighted in 1934, he made his stage debut in 1912, before serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers during the First World War.

From 1912, after RADA training, he had a very long and distinguished stage career in London and New York, excelling as an interpreter of Shaw, whose fifth favourite actor he was (the first four were the Marx Brothers).

Cedric Hardwicke was 41 when he was knighted which made him the youngest actor at the time to receive that honour. He was also playwright George Bernard Shaw's fifth favourite actor - the top four being the Marx Brothers

"Intimidating" was perhaps what he did best, but the range is wide and the pickings rich: he was apparently always short of cash which was bad luck for him but not for filmgoers as it meant he played over 80 roles with consummate authority.

Еще о смешном

(откуда-то):
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, remember him? I met him with Victor Saville and he says, (imitating posh English accent) 'I always wanted to play Mike Hammer' and I say 'you can't, cause you have no hair' and he says 'hair? You can buy hair anywhere!'

This is true, you know. But the way he says it!
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On one occasion three of the cast were riding in a car that was stopped for a traffic offense. Buckingham leaned forward and said to the policeman "I am Sir Ralph Richardson. Seated next to me is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and behind me is Sir Laurence Olivier." The policeman replied "I don't care if it's the whole of King Arthur's ruddy Round Table. You're getting a summons!"

Мудрые сентенции

Cedric Hardwicke once told an interviewer, "Good actors are good because of the things they can tell us without talking. When they are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor."

“I believe that God felt sorry for actors, so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.”

“Actors and burglars work better at night.”

“I can’t act. I have never acted. And I shall never act. What I can do is suspend my audience’s power of judgement till I’ve finished.”

О второй (?) жене, о любви и о голосе

Hardwicke, an esteemed character actor of the English stage with a famously plummy voice, was under contract to Fox at the same time. Their romance began on a double date in Beverly Hills, and Scott followed the married Hardwicke back to Broadway (where he contrived to have her replace Lilli Palmer, his co-star in Caesar and Cleopatra, when Palmer took ill) and then on to London. Only when she became pregnant with a son, Michael, did Hardwicke divorce his first wife and marry Scott, who was twenty-eight years his junior.

Still, Scott turns a droll phrase now and then – Charles Laughton cut a figure “like a limp macaroni tube” – and while she left many of my questions unanswered, this passage went a long way toward satisfying my curiosity about her attraction to Sir Cedric:

He was the most distinguished man I had ever met. He displayed a sly wit which was so subtle that it might easily have been missed if one was not alert. He dressed immaculately – Savile Row, naturally. And while Cedric did not have conventional good looks, he had – and I hate using this term, but it really fits – class . . . and plenty of it. His honesty and integrity were above reproach. His voice, sonorous, deep and rich, . . . was like a good vintage wine; it kept improving. It was his premier instrument and I often wished that I could bottle it.

Про ШХ /бреттофанаты должны знать его сына, Э. Хардвика

Эдвард Хардвик:
My father, Cedric Hardwicke, played Holmes in, umm, I think it was 1945, with Finley Currie playing Watson, and it was for the BBC. He only did the one, I think it was the Speckled Band. It’s memorable, mainly for Conan Doyle’s son, who talked before the actual play was recorded.

Про памятник от Толкиена

Tolkien (Тим!!) also sculpted a memorial to the actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, at the latter's birthplace of Lye, West Midlands, for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of Sir Cedric's best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein. It was unveiled in November 2005.


Кто о нем что говорил:

Винсент Прайс (как всегда, шутит):


A reporter came into the dressing room while Ronnie, Cedric Hardwicke and I were sitting around and this interviewer said, “Mr. Colman, where did they get the story for this picture?” He said, “from the jacket of the book!”

О том, как Седрик "убрал" Чемберлена

RC: Raymond Massey [who co-starred with Chamberlain in Kildare] was kind of a father figure to me during Dr. Kildare. He used to invite me to his house for lunch where he would have guests like Cedric Hardwicke and Jack Hawkins. I would just sit and listen to their stories.

I was sitting one day at lunch across from Cedric Hardwicke once. And he said (affecting perfect accent) ‘you know Richard its a pity, you’ve become a big star before you learned to act.’ He didn’t mean it cruelly at all, he meant where was my basic training? In England, they are trained through drama school and repertory theater, etc.


Джон Кэрредайн:

О похвалах сами себе

It was in the summer season, and we had this huge rehearsal hall, and this was the dress rehearsal, and Cedric and I were sitting on the sidelines watching the rest of the rehearsal, and Cedric turned to me and said, ‘You know, John, we have something in common.’ Well, I’d known Cedric for 25 years at least by that time, and we’d been very good friends for years. ‘What is that, Cedric?’ I asked. ‘We both love to act, and we’re damn good at it!’ he said.

О жене и о печальном

"He was a fairly serene man considering he had a great deal of trouble in his life. His wife was a dipsomaniac - they didn’t live together - he had her in an asylum in Canada. She would escape every once in a while, get a bowl of liquor and make a mess of things. And he had this to contend with for years and all his friends knew it. He was very fond of her because she was a lovely lady when she was in her right mind. But he had to suffer this for years. He never divorced her. So his life was not a serene life. He had an extraordinary modest serenity in his personality considering the trials and tribulations he had to suffer."

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А вот это я, пожалуй, переведу, потому как подпишусь под каждым словом:

"Седрик был прекрасным актером. У него было одно чудесное качество, которое я подметил еще до того, как познакомился с ним лично. Прекрасная неподвижность его лица. На нем никогда не двигался ни единый мускул, и все же Седрику удавалось блистательно передавать чувства. Первый раз я увидел его в "Отверженных" - там, собственно, я с ним и познакомился. Я играл молодого студента, который начинает французскую революцию, а он играл епископа, у которого украли подсвечники (от меня: какое точное определение этой роли!), и играя его, он был изумительно спокоен. У него это просто на лице было написано, что всегда меня изумляло. Сущая безмятежность".
(с) Дж. Кэрредайн

@темы: History of madness, Price, сэр Седрик, ШХ

Comments

[~Вестелина~]

Про Толкиена улыбнуло) Когда читала, сложилось впечатление, что Хардвик был на редкость чопорным или по краней мере вызывал такие вот "чопорные" эмоции хотя, может, это чисто английские заморочки...
Его высказываение о хорошем актере перекликается с отзывом Кэрридайна; сама всегда думала, что главное в актере это взгляд, но ИМХО, у Хардвика лицо порой слишком неподвижное.

[Addeson]

Ага, такой весь пафосно-замкнутый тип с классическим английским акцентом и в шикарных костюмах) Но он и правда во всех фильмах очень пафосен)
Это ему, наверное, Шоу мозги промыл)) Он там ему горячо советовал, как надо играть, а тот развесил уши и слушал) Я-то ему в глаза смотрю, поэтому как-то раньше и не замечала - правда, его епископ - это просто-таки человек в нирване, это не только я и Джон заметили, это еще и с ютьюба)