“Stanley and Livingstone”

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 4

“Stanley and Livingstone”

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the distinguished British actor, sacrificed a small fortune to play the role of Dr. Livingstone in Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of "Stanley and Livingstone" with Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, and Hichard Greene in leading roles. Sir Cedric has wanted to portray the famous explorer-missionary ever since he was a boy. One of the most elusive of all actors where films are concerned, he has turned down scores of parts because they did not appeal to him, hut in order to play the hero of his boyhood days at Bridgnorth School in England, the actor closed the tour of his hit play, “Shadow and Substance,” four months before schedule. It was Zanuck who persuaded Sir Cedric to go to Hollywood five years ago to play the bishop in “Les Miserables” and he returned two years later to appear in “The Green Light." Spencer Tracy shares the title role as Henry M. Stanley the great newspaper man who found Livingstone in the black heart of Africa. Others prominently cast are Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Henry Hull and Henry Travers. Henry King directed “Stanley and Livingstone” from a screen play by Philip Dunn and Julien Josepbson,