If anyone in Hollywood knows what it takes to get through epidemics, it’s Norman Lloyd. This protean actor was 3 in New York when the Spanish flu erupted in February 1918 and infected some 500 mill…
as the nasty Broadway gossip columnist. “Lancaster was great, a terrific actor,” Norman enthused, and I was surprised because he’d never mentioned him to me before.The Flame and the Arrow
in 1950, and it echoed my own great esteem for the late actor, which was further intensified many years ago when I chanced to be seated next to him on a flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City. The actor had disguised himself in peasanty-style garb, an outsized sombrero, a big moustache and even bigger dark sunglasses in an attempt to avoid being recognized. But I broke the ice by mentioning thatis one of my favorite films of all time and we carried on for hours until we landed.
, and how he adored playing him opposite Louis Calhern in New York in 1951. “He had no fear, he was wonderful,” Norman proclaimed. “He was at least 6’4”, he had grandeur as a person. He WAS a king.” By contrast, Norman was no fan of some other Lears he saw. Orson Welles, for whom Norman had played the Fool in the legendaryat the Mercury Theater in 1937, was “not very good” in the role in New York in 1956. Nor did he much care for three others, variously on stage and in films: Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier and Lee J. Cobb.
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