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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...
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    English actor and theatre director, and the husband of actress Dame Sybil Thorndike. Lewis Casson was born at 18 Alfred Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire, the...
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  • son of Robert L. Thorndike Russell Thorndike (1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), a British...
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    Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love was writing and, after serving in World...
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    Marina Laurence Olivier as Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia Sybil Thorndike as the Dowager Queen Richard Wattis as Northbrook Jeremy Spenser as...
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  • starred Sybil Thorndike as Esmeralda and Booth Conway as the hunchback. The film is considered lost, but extant still photos show a 40-year-old Thorndike who...
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    DBE (1857–1941), British suffragette, feminist, and philanthropist Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean...
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    Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and...
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    New Theatre, was produced by Lewis Casson and starred Shaw's friend Sybil Thorndike, the actress for whom he had written the part. Costumes and sets were...
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  • directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. Set in Victorian London, it tells...
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