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Radio 3,12 Feb 2019,14 mins

Series Five Screen Gods

Frederic March

The Essay

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Sarah Churchwell celebrates various leading men of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s. Frederic March had an amazing range, playing a lot of different types, and he should be admired for this. Off set, however, he comes under a different sort of scrutiny - "everything was harder in real life than on the effortless silver screen." Reader: Duncan Minshull

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