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Michael Redgrave (and bonus Trev!) as pilot David Archdale in the newly restored The Way To The Stars [d: Anthony Asquith, 1945]

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The Quiet American

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Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood on the set of The Stars Look Down (1940)

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Michael Redgrave, Petula Clark and Peter O'Toole during a press reception at the Savoy Hotel in London, 20th June 1968

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) directed by Herbert Ross

Peter O'Toole as Arthur Chipping

Petula Clark as Katherine Bridges

Michael Redgrave as The Headmaster

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Michael Redgrave in Fame is the Spur (1947)

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Sir Michael Redgrave

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Happy Birthday Michael Redgrave 20th March 1908 - 21st March 1985

For the real actor the only place where he is truly at home is on the stage - whatever kind of stage it may be. The true actor is in fact one who is ‘á l’étroit chez-lui’; in the spiritual sense, he is only at home when he is not himself. To be at his real home he will tear himself away from loved ones, lover, life itself. ‘I am grateful’ said Joseph Jefferson in an interview after his retirement ‘for this life of illuminated emotion’.

- Michael Redgrave, The Actor’s Ways and Means, 1953.

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Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave  (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985)

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Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night, 1945

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- What was Michael Redgrave like to work with?

Alfred Hitchcock: It was his first screen part. When we started, we rehearsed a scene, and then I told him we were ready to shoot it. He said it wasn’t ready. “In the theater, we’d have three weeks to rehearse this”. “I’m sorry”, I said, “in this medium, we have three minutes”. But he learned the new way quickly.

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Michael Redgrave in The Way to the Stars (1945)

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Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave in a publicity photo for Secret Beyond the Door (1947)