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Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson, CH, DBE (24 October 1882 – 9 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969. Trained in her youth as a concert pianist, Thorndike turned to the stage when a medical problem with her hands ruled out a musical career.
Sybil Thorndike. Actress: The Prince and the Showgirl. This distinguished theatrical tragedienne will be remembered forever if only for the fact George Bernard Shaw wrote his classic "Saint Joan" work specifically for her.
Sybil Thorndike. Actress: The Prince and the Showgirl. This distinguished theatrical tragedienne will be remembered forever if only for the fact George Bernard Shaw wrote his classic "Saint Joan" work specifically for her.
Jun 5, 2024 · Dame Sybil Thorndike was an English actress of remarkable versatility. The daughter of a canon of Rochester Cathedral, she performed with Annie Horniman’s company in Manchester (1908–09 and 1911–13), and then joined the Old Vic Company in London (1914–18), where she helped to establish not only the.
Jun 10, 1976 · Dame Sybil Thorndike, the pre‐eminent actress of the British theater, whose career spanned seven decades and five reigns, beginning with the Edwardian era, died yesterday at her home in...
Thorndike, Sybil (1882–1976) English actress who, having made her debut in 1904, lived to become the last link between the glories of the Edwardian theater and those of the post- World War II "Age of Olivier." Name variations: Lady Lewis Casson; Dame Sybil Thorndike.
British stage actor Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976) was one of the leading figures in British theatre during the first half of the 20th century. She made her stage debut in a regional company production of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1904, and achieved her greatest success in the title role of Saint Joan, a play written for her by George Bernard ...
Oct 24, 2019 · Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976) is best known to modern audiences for a handful of screen roles, supporting parts in the film versions of Shaw's Major Barbara (1941) and Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950).
Thorndike, Sybil (1882-1976) Actor Most majestic of the great British theatre ladies, whose successes embraced virtually all the challenging classical roles for women (Medea, Lady Macbeth, etc) and who, in 1924, indelibly stamped Shaw 's St Joan (which he wrote for her) with her own kind of moral power.
The Dench kind, not the Biggins. Brandreth writes in The Oldie that the first stage dame he knew personally was Sybil Thorndike, a neighbour when he was a child.
