Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth

Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was, contrary to the film Prince of Players , an American, not a British actor. Widely considered the greatest Hamlet of his time and the greatest American actor of the nineteenth century, he was also the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Deeply shaken by his brother's crime, Edwin ... Show more »
Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was, contrary to the film Prince of Players , an American, not a British actor. Widely considered the greatest Hamlet of his time and the greatest American actor of the nineteenth century, he was also the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Deeply shaken by his brother's crime, Edwin Booth briefly left the stage, but his career managed to recover from the tragedy. Although he of course made no films, he did manage to leave wax cylinder recordings of Shakespearean excerpts. Show less «
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...

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