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1. www.inquirer.com › philly › entertainmentOn Movies: Firth speaks admiringly of the king he plays so well

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   Colin Firth knew as much about George VI - father of Queen Elizabeth and the ruler of the British Empire during World War II - as the next guy. Which is to say, not very much. "I knew nothing," says the actor, who happens to play King George - called Bertie by his intimates - in the exceptional, heart-stirring The King's Speech .

2. www.thenationalnews.com › arts › colin-firth-notColin Firth: Not your average English gentleman - The National

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   Dec 10, 2010 · As he prepares to attend the DIFF, he talks about the perks of turning 50 and why he is nothing like Mr Darcy. Colin Firth plays George VI in The King's Speech, with Helena Bonham Carter in the role of his wife, Elizabeth, and Geoffrey Rush as the King's speech therapist, Lionel Logue. Colin Firth has just turned 50 and the night before we talk ...

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   Who is Colin Firth in the King's speech?

   • Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech,” directed by Tom Hooper. The film explores the friendship between George VI and Lionel Logue, an Australian who focused on the king’s psychology to help him conquer public speaking, so that he was even able to tackle live radio. Laurie Sparham/Weinstein Company LONDON

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   Did Colin Firth have a stammer?

   • “It was a perfect storm of catastrophe,” said Colin Firth, whose nuanced portrayal of George has generated a huge pre-Oscar stir. “Having a stammer causes tremendous suffering, and just a few years earlier he would have been bailed out by having his remarks recorded and edited. But he was required to speak on this new device, live radio.

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   Does Colin Firth have a stuttering problem?

   • In “The King’s Speech,” Colin Firth portrays a wartime monarch with a stuttering problem.

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   What does Colin Firth wear in a single man?

   • Eduard Grau/Weinstein Company The face of grief that the actor Colin Firth wears in “A Single Man” is crumpled and gray. There is little movement in the face initially: it’s a beautiful and gently furrowed mask, not yet old, despite the small brushstrokes of white at the temples. You might think that gravity alone was tugging at its mouth.

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2010/10/31 › movies‘The King’s Speech,’ George VI From Stutter to Radio - The ...

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   Oct 28, 2010 · An Accidental King Finds His Voice. Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech,” directed by Tom Hooper. The film explores the friendship between George VI and Lionel Logue, an Australian who focused ...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2009/12/11 › moviesA Love That Speaks Its Name in ‘A Single Man’ - The New York ...

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   Dec 10, 2009 · A Love That Speaks Its Name: A College Professor’s Fateful Day. Colin Firth in a scene from the film “A Single Man,” directed by Tom Ford. Eduard Grau/Weinstein Company. The face of grief ...

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7. www.npr.org › 2010/11/29 › 131667740Colin Firth: This King's 'Speech' Had A Different Ring : NPR

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   Nov 29, 2010 · In The King's Speech, Firth plays King George VI, a reluctant royal who struggles to overcome a debilitating stammer. Firth tells NPR's Robert Siegel that despite being born of privilege, the king ...

8. content.time.com › time › specialsColin Firth as King George VI in 'The King's Speech' - The ...

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   Dec 9, 2010 · Colin Firth has hardly suffered the raillery directed at Bertie, but in his nearly three decades as a stage, screen and TV actor, he has been a shadowy luminary: good ol' handsome, reliable Colin. His lovely work as George, the smitten, suicidal Englishman in last year's A Single Man, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Now ...

9. minttheater.org › archive-articles › philip-goesPHILIP GOES FORTH THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Mint Theater Company

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   THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'TRAVELING A ROAD FULL OF TWISTS' TERRY TEACHOUT. October 4, 2013. George Kelly was nothing more than a name to me until four months ago, when Connecticut’s Westport Country Playhouse produced “The Show-Off,” the 1924 play for which he is remembered—barely—by students of American theater between the wars.