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EPISODE · Feb 12, 2019 · 13 MIN

Frederic March

from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3

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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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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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...

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