A Damned Serious Business

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"Any fool can play tragedy,"said the great eighteenth-century actor David Garrick,"but comedy, sir, is a damned serious business."
Sir Rex Harrison, who was starring on Broadway in Somerset Maugham's The Circle until three weeks before his death, had addressed himself to the serious business of making people laugh since he first started acting - disastrously - at Liverpool Rep at the age of sixteen. He toured seaside piers and palaces in Charley's Aunt, was such a flop in Richard III he forswore the Bard for the rest of his long career, and became the toast of the town in the glamorous 1930s in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears.

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After the Second World War, during which he firewatched at the Haymarket in the Blitz and served in the RAF, Twentieth Centurj- Fox lured him to Hollywood to make Anna and the King of Siam, The Ghost and Mrs Muir and The Foxes of Harrow., but he soon engineered his escape back to the boards in the Pulitzer prize-winning//////f of the... Tovább

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"Any fool can play tragedy,"said the great eighteenth-century actor David Garrick,"but comedy, sir, is a damned serious business."
Sir Rex Harrison, who was starring on Broadway in Somerset Maugham's The Circle until three weeks before his death, had addressed himself to the serious business of making people laugh since he first started acting - disastrously - at Liverpool Rep at the age of sixteen. He toured seaside piers and palaces in Charley's Aunt, was such a flop in Richard III he forswore the Bard for the rest of his long career, and became the toast of the town in the glamorous 1930s in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears.

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After the Second World War, during which he firewatched at the Haymarket in the Blitz and served in the RAF, Twentieth Centurj- Fox lured him to Hollywood to make Anna and the King of Siam, The Ghost and Mrs Muir and The Foxes of Harrow., but he soon engineered his escape back to the boards in the Pulitzer prize-winning//////f of the Thousand Days on Broadway. His first Ton)-Award, for his much-padded portrayal of Henry VIII in that play, enabled him to go back and forth between London and New York, appearing in many successful roles until, in 1956, after gruelling rehearsals and terrifying tryouts, A/y Fair Lady opened on Broadway. His portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was to bccome a part of history. Vissza