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I’ve seen Claire Bloom on television and heard that she has a major role in “The Brothers Karamazov,” hut I never read much about her. How about some facts on this mystery girl?
Emeric Johnson Chicago, 111.
There’s no mystery about Claire Bloom — except where she got all that talent. Hailed since her teens as one of the finest Shakespearean actresses in her native England or anywhere else, Claire is currently teamed with Yul Brynncr in two of Hollywood’s biggest for 1958, “The Brothers Karamazov” and “ The Buccaneer.” Contract difficulties (almost settled) have kept her off the screen till now.
“When I was five,” Claire says, “I had the wonderful experience of seeing Norma Shearer in the American screen version of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ That’s when l determined that I would be an actress — a Shakespearean actress — someday.”
World War II came and stalled her plans for a short time, a matter of a few years which she spent as an evacuee in the United States , mostly with relatives in Florida and New York.
Back in England at fourteen, she read that Stratford-on-Avon producer Peter Brooks wanted a fourteen-year-old girl to play Juliet. Claire applied for the job and the amused Mr. Brooks tried to tell her what he actually meant. He wanted an adult actress who could project the feeling she was only fourteen. Claire was not too impressed with this explanation and the next year she plagued the British Broadcasting Company until they hired her — to play a woman of ill repute. “I wonder what Mr. Brooks would have thought,” she says with a smile.
Parts with the Stratford-on-Avon group were next. She was the youngest member of the troupe and by everyone’s account, one of the most brilliant. Other non-Shakespearean stage successes followed and then Charlie Chaplin signed her for his last American film , “ Limelight .”
This picture, plus her brilliant work as Juliet in the Old Vic’s version of “ Romeo and Juliet ” hud the critics polishing their finest superlatives.
Claire likes Hollywood. “ Mind you,” she says , “I wouldn’t want to be tied down to one place forever, but living is so pleasant in California — what with the swimming pools and all — I hope to stay awhile.” — Ed.
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