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But when Charles II declares women may indeed trod the theatre's (& London's) stage(s), he finds himself haunted by the persona he has become.
JOAN CRAWFORD returned to MGM for TORCH SONG after a decade of other films at other studios, in a role that paints her character as tough-as-nails--in fact, so tough that you expect her to take out a gun at any moment and shoot anyone who disagrees with her bossy persona.
The characters are so complex and so powerful, that after a few episodes, you abandon your true persona and start living as they do, start feeling as they do, and their burdens and joys make your heart pulse.
Steve Mcqueen was never a very good actor for my standards of acting and although he has many really bright moments in this one his inability to stop switching his role on and off to his usual Steve Mcqueen persona didn't help much.
Woody Allen films are always best when Woody himself stars in them; his neurotic persona is a great base for laughs, and he certainly delivers in this film!
McElwee manages to evoke an entire persona for himself - whether authentic or not - with scenes like these, at the same time drawing an insightful - if slightly overblown, though satirically so - comparison of himself to William Tecumseh Sherman and his devastating Civil War march through the South.
She gets a few good cracks in, but there's no character here for her to play; she sticks to her sarcastic persona and puts everyone down, but her role is depressingly one-dimensional.
To start with, I couldn't care less about her rich girl persona and her snot son.
William Katt (Jack) is more of a straight-arrow character, whereas Vincent's (Matt) is frighteningly like his true off screen persona (a drunk who ends up sleeping on the beach - which actually happened to him!).
His skills, abilities and deftness, real and admirable, are often spoiled, miserably wrecked by his hideous personality (and persona).
I reckon that writer/director John Gilling then added some fictional elements to his film, like the characterizations of the main roles, since Hare's persona is almost blackly comical and Dr. Knox' attitude is stubborn and typically obnoxious like nearly every scientist in horror cinema.
Stewart, in only his fifth film, shows the screen persona that would soon carry him to super stardom.
It's about the whole myth/urban legend behind his persona and how it scares superstitious people that believe in it.
This is the nature of genius and is probably part of Carson McCuller's own persona.
The film just doesn't have the saucy joie de vivre of the pre-Code Wheeler and Woolseys, and the presence of poor old Willie Best (here in his Sleep 'n' Eat persona) guarantees 99% of the modern day audience will find offense with this film.
Despite his occasional appearance in the films of major directors like Max Ophuls, Jacques Becker and Jean Renoir, from the 1950s onwards Jean Gabin seemed content to rely simply on his effortlessly charismatic screen persona and elevate an apparently interminable succession of old-fashioned potboilers which, while undeniably enjoyable in themselves, now seem like a regrettable waste of this monumental French film star.
Juliette Binonche, a french actor with a wide range of persona skills depict the sense of solemness to a high degree.
Alan Ladd has something of a mystery persona here not unlike his role In Shane.
There are some dark elements, with Fahey giving the collector a frightening persona.
Ehtan Hawke's pseudo-intellectual persona is tired.
i'm willing to give Catherine Deneuve a lot of slack, because she is so beautiful to watch, but the thing that's troubling me here, in part, is that both she and Malkovich are lending their names to a film where they do little else, as also in the otherwise wonderful "I'm Going Home." unlike Johnny Depp, who has made his home in France but hasn't presumed to impose himself on French cinema, Malkovich keeps turning up but never seems to vary his vocal cadence, nor his basic persona.
There's the great scene in "The Public Enemy" where Cagney leans against the lamppost in the rain, defining his character and persona as a force to be reckoned with.
But, Martin creates his own persona with some great lines as funny as Marissa Tomei and Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinnie.
This part is played by the radiantly crazy Vera Farmiga who rolls over Nick Stahl's staid NPR persona with willful glee.
I know he's older, but some of that 80's 'action star' persona comes through really nicely, and he still has amazing charisma in front of the camera.
I was expecting a brilliant, insightful film about the person behind the persona of james dean.
Average acting, like Tony Dalton's, added to Kristoff Racynsky's humorous persona makes this a very good piece of Mexican cinema.
The inspired casting of Tab Hunter in the warped lead qualifies as the film's masterstroke; Hunter's blandly handsome boy next door persona makes for the perfect front for the severe dementia bubbling just underneath the surface.
Though be warned....during the breaks between the songs he reverts to his regular persona and there is some strong language (only 4 or 5 times) which may offend, but don't let that put you off.
When I became aware of her it was late in her career after she had developed into a boozy, smoke belching, caricature of her on screen persona's.
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