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Article: Theater Gets Gielgud in Name Only
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 3, 1994
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LONDON The British stage world, honoring one of the greatest
classical actors of the 20th century, named a London West End theater
after Sir John Gielgud on Wednesday.
But the 90-year-old Oscar winner will not be treading the
boards at the theater that was his second home for 30 years.
"I am too nervous to play onstage any more," he confessed as
fellow thespians gathered to pay homage to the grand old man of
British theater, who popularized Shakespeare and then went on to win
worldwide fame in a varied film career.
But Gielgud's film career is far from over. He has just
finished playing Scarlett O'Hara's grandfather in "Scarlett," the
television sequel to "Gone With the Wind," and ...