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Director, Producer, Actor. In a career lasting around forty years, Anthony Asquith worked with most of the major British stars, including Brian Aherne and Annette Benson in the silent era, Leslie Howard in the 1930s, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and John Mills during World War Two, and Dirk Bogarde, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton in the post-war period.
Apr 10, 2017 · Short Takes —. Apr 10, 2017. Share. F or too long languishing in Hitchcock’s burly shadow, Anthony Asquith was a charming maverick who emerged from one of Britain’s most patrician families—his father, the Earl of Oxford, had been Prime Minister, and his mother, Margot Asquith, was a celebrated socialite and aspiring writer.
Jun 3, 2013 · For decades, Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) was known as one of Britain’s greatest silent films but barely seen. A story of love and betrayal set around “the Tube”, it was restored by the British Film Institute’s National Archive and re-released this January to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Metropolitan Railway station opening at Baker Street.
Anthony Asquith. Highest Rated: 95% Pygmalion (1938) Lowest Rated: 0% The V.I.P.s (1963) Birthday: Nov 9, 1902. Birthplace: London, England, UK. With H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others ...
Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, and Dame Edith Evans, the enduringly hilarious story of two young women who think themselves engaged to the same nonexistent man is given the grand Technicolor treatment. Seldom has a classic stage ...
Anthony Asquith. Director; Screenwriter; Actor “I will only say that every work of art, even where more than one mind had gone into it’s shaping, ultimately bears ...
The Browning Version. Michael Redgrave gives the performance of his career in Anthony Asquith’s adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s unforgettable play. Redgrave portrays Andrew Crocker-Harris, an embittered, middle-aged schoolmaster who begins to feel that his life has been a failure. Diminished by poor health, a crumbling marriage, and the ...
