Movies
Following his success with “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” the 1949 comedy that made him a star, Alec Guinness took a risk by going straight to a couple of serious roles, one in “Last Holiday,” the other in “The Mudlark.”
Nov. 8, 1991
The comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets” is said to have helped transform Alec Guinness from merely a respected actor to a legitimate movie star in Britain, a performer with box office charisma beyond his obvious talents.
Aug. 9, 1990
Much of the fun in “Kind Hearts and Coronets” comes from watching Alec Guinness ham it up--but with style, a restrained, very British style.
Aug. 10, 1990
England’s Ealing Studios, famed for its series of Alec Guinness comedies, is celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a monthlong festival.
Dec. 1, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
For “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” homicidal ambition is the mother of musical comedy invention.
March 24, 2016
Television
It took about a millisecond for nostalgia to kick in when word arrived about the death of Sir Alec Guinness, that esteemed, most versatile character actor known in the U.S. mostly for his many movies.
Aug. 9, 2000
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” the period musical comedy starring Jefferson Mays in multiple roles, opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York on Sunday, following engagements at the Old Globe in San Diego and the Hartford Stage Co. in Connecticut.
Nov. 18, 2013
‘A Gentleman’s Guide’ on Broadway: What did the critics think?
It would be wonderful to report that the British farce with Maggie Smith as a sweetly homicidal housekeeper and Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling vicar was the second coming of England’s Ealing Studios, which produced the hilariously impolite murder comedies “The Ladykillers” and “Kind Hearts and Coronets.”
Sept. 29, 2006
Jane Fonda, who was derided by many people during the early 1970s for her outspoken anti-war sentiments--and particularly her trip to North Vietnam, saw “Platoon” and declared in an interview: “A movie like this helps to insure that it (another Vietnam) will never happen again.”
Jan. 25, 1987