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"Make me no undying vows, show me NOW!"
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Jeremy Brett, a shiny, clear-eyed young Englishman, abandoned the London Theatre to come to Hollywood and play Freddie Eynsford-Hill in "My Fair Lady."
This is the callow young man who becomes extravagantly devoted to Eliza Doolittle and who sings "On the Street Where You Live" in pursuit of his affections, and who almost, but not quite, marries the girl. To appear in "My Fair Lady," Jeremy made his first trip to the U.S. West Coast, where he found the vegetables in the super-markets "looked like oil paintings." Jeremy is a mannerly and thoughtful; he has humor and a buoyant spirit, and he won his role of Freddie in "My Fair Lady" over some 40 other shiny young Englishmen. |
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" ... He originally wanted to be a singer, but his 'glorious soprano didn't break so well.' Then came aspirations to be a jockey or a dancer. 'But I got too big to be a jockey. As for dance, after I went to my first ballet, I suddenly realized that the man spends all his time lifting the woman in front of himself, and I thought that's a bit deadly.'" - from "Right At Holmes," The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 27, 1988. |
