Look Back in Anger (Warner Bros.) (1959)

= Dramatic Story Of One Of Today's “Angry Young Men” Told In Exciting New Warner Bros. Film, ‘Look Back In Anger” Richard Burton, Claire Bloom Star In John Osborne's Stage Success “Look Back in Anger,” John Osborne’s extraordinary hit play, has been made into a motion picture and released by Warner Bros. It will be seen at the .......... Theatre starting 4... sees Starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure, the film is expected to be greeted with even more enthusiasm than the play, for it tells the explosive story of three people caught up in their own passions and uneasy love. Richard Burton portrays Jimmy Porter, an “angry young man” with a mixture of sincerity and cheerful malice. He is restless, full of pride and given to blistering remarks which make him few friends. Mary Ure plays his wife Alison, driven to distraction in the small top-floor flat in the northern town in which they live. Claire Bloom, the third member of the triangle, is a young actress whom Jimmy hates with a fire that is but one step behind passion. Also involved in this intimate relationship is Cliff, played by 22-year-old Gary Raymond, and Jimmy’s old friend, Ma Tanner, portrayed by Dame Edith Evans. It is toward her that Jimmy shows his rare flashes of sympathy. Some two years ago the cult of the “Angry Young Man” burst upon the world, triggered off by an explosive play “Look Back in Anger,” which shot its hitherto unknown author, John Osborne, to fame as one of the most talented writers of our decade. Heading the cast in the role of. the unpredictable Jimmy Porter is Richard Burton. Burton’s first film was opposite Olivia de Havilland in “My Cousin Rachel,” followed by leading roles in “T'he Rains of Ranchipur,” ‘Alexander the Great,” and “The Robe.” Recently he completed a starring part in Warner Bros.’ “The Bramble Bush,” followed immediately with a co-starring role with Richard Burton Goes Home— To His Family And Football Richard Burton is truly an international actor. His name is equally as wellknown in London, Hollywood, New York, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. He lives—when he’s not working—in Switzerland with his wife and young daughter. But during the time he was in London making Warner Bros.’ screen version of John Osborne’s international stage success, “Look Back in Anger,’ which opens .... at the Theatre, Burton traveled as often as possible to his home town in Wales. There, he spent his time with his six brothers, looking up old friends and watching his favorite Dame Edith Evans Switches From Nun To Cockney Role Dame Edith Evans, the 71-yearold matriarch of the British theatre, made a quick and violent switch in characterizations for her new role in Warner Bros.’ “Look BackinAnger?sdues «oi. 6 one at LH] OVS 8 a Cae mera te Theatre. She plays a blowsy cockney flower vendor in this film, which was only a few weeks removed from her previous role—that of a Mother Superior in “The Nun’‘s Story.” Such breathtaking switches are hardly new to Dame Edith who, for more than 35 years, has been delighting the English theatregoing public as she bounces from Shakespeare to buffoonery. “I’ve been a Lady MacBeth one night,” she says, and a charwoman the next.” Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure head the cast of “Look Back in Anger,” based on the play by John Osborne. Others of the supporting cast of the picture, which was directed by Tony Richardson, include Gary Raymond, Glen Byam _ Shaw, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Donald Pleasence, Jane Eccles, S. P. Kapoor, George Devine, Walter Hudd and Anne Dickins. sport of football. In his home town, local residents who knew him as a boy don’t make any fuss when he appears—it’s just not the nature of the Welsh to do that.. The affection is there, nevertheless. Following “Look Back in Anger,” Burton returned to Hollywood for two more pictures at Warner Bros.’—“The Bramble Bush,” in which he co-stars with Angie Dickinson and Jack Carson, and “Ice Palace,’ Technicolor film version of Edna Ferber’s bestselling novel. “Look Back in Anger,” co-stars Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Dame Edith Evans and Gary Raymond. Claire Bloom stars in Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in Anger,” film version of John Osborne’s sensational hit play, coming .......... to the Theatre. Housewives’ Lesson There’s a lesson for housewives in Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in AN Cer COMING.) tA aun to the Theatre. The ironing board is no place to argue with your husband. Mary Ure, leading lady in the film, harangues at and is harangued by Richard Burton, her husband, while she irons his shirt. The result, during the heat of the argument, is a badly burned wrist for the lady. Moral: It’s safer to argue at the washing machine. Robert Ryan in “Ice Palace,” Technicolor film version of Edna Ferber’s best-selling novel. In the role of Helena, beautiful third side of the triangular love affair of Jimmy Porter, is lovely and talented Claire Bloom. She first became prominent when she appeared in. Christopher Fry’s “Ring Round the Moon.” This led to her being cast in Charles Chaplin’s “Limelight,” for which she received wide critical acclaim. Her other films include ‘“Alexander the Great,’ “Richard III” and ‘The Brothers Karamazov.” The part of Alison, Jimmy Porter’s long-suffering wife, is no new role for Mary Ure. She created it in England and played it with equal success on Broadway. She is married to John Osborne, author of “Look Back in Anger.” “Look Back in Anger” was produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Tony Richardson, from a screenplay by Nigel Kneale. Richard Burton stars in Warner Bros.’ screen version of the John Osborne play, “Look Back in Anger,” coming .......... to the Theatre. Burton Blows Trumpet In Film Richard Burton, who plays a passable piano and sings Welsh songs better than passably, learned to tootle the trumpet for his new screen role in Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in Anger,’ which SCALES aceite te AGG eres ms acs Theatre. “Tm afraid,’ he admitted, “that I never learned to do it even passably, however.” Burton’s trumpet caper is performed in a dingy night club, one of the backgrounds of ‘Look Back in Anger,’ an explosive drama based on the play by John Osborne. Tony Richardson directed the film which co-stars Claire Bloom and Mary Ure. Unusual Actor Uses One Name There’s a one-name man in the cast. of “Look Back in Anger,” Warner Bros.’ film drama based on John Osborne’s famous play, Which missduerss ues sao. at the Theatre. He is called simply Boxer, and that’s the way he is billed, along with more normally named players in the cast like Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure. Besides being an actor, Boxer claims he operates a coffee house, writes poetry, paints surrealistically and bums drinks. Tony Richardson directed “Look Back in Anger.” Mary Ure and Richard Burton star in Warner Bros.’ film version of John Osborne’s hit play, “Look Back in Anger,” a vivid story of today’s “angry young people.” Picture is due Theatre. London's Soho Is New Film Setting Soho is to London what Greenwich Village is to New York, what the International Settlement is to San Francisco and what the Sunset Strip is to Hollywood. For Americans who have never been to London or Soho, there is Beeler COMMM Ds. seer ees to the Theatre called “Look Back in Anger,’ in which many of the scenes have been photographed in the Soho area. That’s where the sweat-shirt, blue-jeaned set dance to smoky music and conduct themselves like members of a lost generation. “Look Back in Anger,” a Warner Bros.’ film, stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure and Gary Raymond. Double Success Claire Bloom and Richard Burton, two of the stars of Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in Anger,” both made their names in the same play, at the same time, in London’s West End. The play? Christopher Fry’s “The Lady’s Not For Burning.” “Look Back in Anger,” filmization of John Osborne’s dynamic play, comes to the..:....... Theabre= SCreen Oot sees , Starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure and Dame Edith Evans. at the Moment Of Decision For Clair Bloom, Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in Anger,” due .... at the Theatre, can mean a dramatic steppingstone to top international stardom. Recently she returned from Hollywood where she starred with Yul Brynner in “The Brothers Karamazov” and “The Buccaneer,” but up to nov, she is better known for her stage work. “Look Back in Anger’ should change all that. As soon as Claire read the role of Helena, third side of this explosive triangular love story, she knew it was the part for her. Yet it was a part which required a great deal of courage to play, for it was so alien to anything she had done before. The part required her to switch moods violently—to become a scheming vixen who hides passionate desire under a cloak of calculated hardness. There was, however, much to be said in favor of the role. It would re-unite her with Richard Burton, her co-star in ‘Alexander the Great.’ Also, she would be starring in the film version of a play, the power of which had reverberated around the world. “Look Back in Anger” Richard Burton, stars Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Dame Edith Evans and Gary Raymond. Mary Ure, Gary Raymond and Richard Burton are a strange triangle in Warner Bros.’ “Look Back in Anger,” film version of John Osborne’s sensational hit play. Picture also stars Claire Bloom and opens .... Siete coe at-the...0..:... Theatre. Page Nine