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"Hobson's choice" Definitions
  1. the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
"Hobson's choice" Synonyms
lack of choice no alternative no choice only choice without choice zero option between the devil and the deep blue sea between a rock and a hard place between Scylla and Charybdis between the hammer and the anvil between two fires catch-22 cornered in a dilemma in a pickle in a predicament in the middle sitting on a powder keg
"Hobson's choice" Antonyms
possibility alternative option choice preference resort bet pick recourse selection solution way call decision decree determination discretion election evaluation nomination

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Andy McDonald, a local Labour MP, labelled it Hobson's choice.
It is their Hobson's choice of no choice at all.
"It's a Hobson's choice," said my friend Amy, a theater consultant.
Dirks hides behind a contrived Hobson's choice of security or liberty.
The weak field of Democrats presents voters with a virtual Hobson's choice.
It's hard to blame Schultz for walking away from that Hobson's choice.
By taking action, we in Congress can resolve the Hobson's Choice LGBT workers currently face.
" Tatel also warned that Rao's position would create a "Hobson's choice" of "impeachment or nothing.
"It's a real Hobson's choice," said former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier, now a partner at Pepper Hamilton.
They shouldn't be forced into a Hobson's choice between seeing their children again or pursuing their asylum claim.
" Rao's "novel approach," Tatel wrote for the majority, would force "Congress to the Hobson's Choice of impeachment or nothing.
Many people will face a Hobson's choice, said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
Some were not in the mood for conversation; others likened the decision about whether to attend to a Hobson's choice.
This Hobson's choice, between surrender or ouster, has been foisted upon Mr. Rosenstein by the cowardice or complicity of congressional Republicans.
Mr Grieve's aim is to stop the government presenting MPs with Hobson's choice: take the deal, or get Brexit with no deal at all.
Moscow now faces a Hobson's choice of empty words of condemnation or escalation on behalf of a global pariah, which risks further American action.
This rule became known as Hobson's choice, and soon people were using that term to mean "no choice at all" in all kinds of situations.
This is exactly the Hobson's choice that Congress intended to put an end to when it enacted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act over 40 years ago.
As a result of the ACA, patients in the U.S. now have Hobson's choice: pay a price they cannot possibly afford or go without insurance coverage.
He lands in a quandary where his intellect counts for nil, where only an approach guided by the ethics of feeling can solve this Hobson's choice.
The former management consultant added that it was possible to "decouple growth" from activities that frequently create a Hobson's choice between economic feasibility and safeguarding the environment.
Without it, millions of Americans who live in states without such protection will continue to face the Hobson's choice of remaining silent or risking financial ruin from SLAPP litigation.
For some time now, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been trying to change the law that requires a Hobson's choice between catch-and-release or family separation.
A similar Hobson's choice confronts Beijing regarding the burgeoning, monthslong civil protests in Hong Kong — again precipitated by the Communist Party's brazen reneging on promises made to the world community.
Individuals and institutions affected by the WannaCry ransomware attack face a Hobson's choice — the malicious software (malware) encrypts a user's documents while the decryption keys remain in the hands of the cybercriminals.
"My more acerbic friends on both sides of the aisle consider it a Hobson's choice," he said, referring to a situation where it seems there's free choice but in reality there's no good alternative.
" All told, Gross said central bankers have fostered a casino-like atmosphere that present "a Hobson's Choice, or perhaps a more damaging Sophie's Choice of participating (or not) in markets previously beyond prior imagination.
Democrats can transcend this Hobson's choice, even in defeat, if they just fight the nomination the right way: making the nomination fight a referendum on Judge Kavanaugh's past actions and on President Trump's character.
"Central bankers have fostered a casino like atmosphere where savers/investors are presented with a Hobson's Choice, or perhaps a more damaging Sophie's Choice of participating (or not) in markets previously beyond prior imagination," Gross wrote.
Without additional funding, the added costs of the Overtime Exemption Rule would leave many providers with the Hobson's choice of cutting the wages of their non-exempt staff, including direct support professionals, serving  fewer people, or both.
The inevitable result of this scheme is steadily shrinking federal support for Medicaid with a Hobson's choice for governors, of making up the budget difference or using that "flexibility" to slash eligibility, covered health services or provider payments.
"We do not have to be boxed in by this Hobson's choice moment of Evil No. 1 or Slightly Less Evil No. 2," Mr. Kingston said, referring to the major parties' presumptive nominees Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton.
While Ms. Kraninger, an official at the Office of Management and Budget, is expected to take a much more business-friendly approach to consumer protection than many Democrats would like, her nomination presents something of a Hobson's choice.
"Many have US-born children; those may be faced with the Hobson's choice of bringing their children with them (and tearing them away from the only country and community they have known) or splitting their families apart," Chen wrote.
"The increasingly risky profession of law enforcement cannot put those sworn to 'serve and protect' to a Hobson's choice: place their lives on the line by heroic forbearance or risk their financial security in defense of lawsuits," Judge Edith Jones wrote.
In "Hobson's Choice" — referring to a decision between one thing and nothing, or, essentially, the idea of take it or leave it — men with black bodies and white heads enter a fray amid numerous small fires and some prison bars.
Instead, such a Hobson's choice requires a "worst-reasonable-case analysis:" Assume that Presidents Clinton and Trump would each seek to indulge the very worst instincts their critics believe them to posses, then support the candidate whose very worst is less bad.
Even if Parliament gets the chance to vote at the end of the two-year period on any exit agreement, it may face a Hobson's choice between endorsing an agreement it dislikes or being outside the bloc without any trade deal at all.
Our government's passive, hands-off approach to this burgeoning industry leaves most of America's innovative and maverick-led companies, inspired by SpaceX's success, to face a Hobson's choice: either accept foreign investment and jeopardize potential future business or shut down their auspicious new ventures entirely.
Instead, at some point in 2019, if and when a deal is done, Parliament will be offered Hobson's Choice—Leave the EU or Really Really Leave the EU with Overnight WTO Taxes and Trucks Lined Up at Dover Customs Belching Diesel into the Channel Tunnel.
They are also right to object to Mrs May's plan to present Parliament after her Brexit negotiations with what Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, a former diplomat often credited with writing Article 50, called Hobson's choice: a bad Brexit deal or, in his view worse, no deal at all.
The larger caravan of prisoners follows soon after, and both requests for sanctuary leave those in power with a Hobson's choice: Use their precious food and water on people who were trying to kill them just hours earlier, or abandon the civility they've spent years working to establish.
"That's a Hobson's choice for any company, they either get some revenue, but way below market, or they get no revenue and spend all their time and money trying to take down all the tens of thousands of illegal copies that are on YouTube, which is a near impossibility," says Sherman.
Given that Ryan's stated goal is to ensure continued GOP control of Congress (or, failing that, at least the House of Representatives), he is facing a Hobson's choice: If he actually makes a real decision regarding Trump, he will quite possibly end up with nothing at all in terms of his own political and policy goals.
"As a result of six years of delays and over four and a half years of illegal and arbitrary detention, Mr Assange is today faced with (a) Hobson's choice: either he gives a statement in which his health, memory and psychological state are severely impeded, or, he is denied once more, an opportunity to be heard," she said by email.
Hobson's Choice and Rocky Run Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hobson's Choice (1954), with Charles Laughton in the lead, was based on the play by Harold Brighouse.
Her last West End role was with Leo McKern in the revival of Hobson's Choice (1984) directed by Frank Hauser.
He also played in a duo called Hobson's Choice,and is an occasional guest player with Cornish band The Hoodle.
Hobson's Choice is available on VHS (Warner Home Video in the UK), DVD (as part of The Criterion Collection), Blu- ray, and LaserDisc.
An advert for White's lemonade appears prominently in the infamous 1954 film Hobson's Choice in Mr Wheeler's shop next to Hobson's boot shop.
Hobson's Choice is a 1920 British comedy drama film directed by Percy Nash and starring Joe Nightingale, Joan Ritz and Arthur Pitt. A Salford bootmaker is irritated to learn his daughter is to marry one of his cobblers, and his outrage grows when they set up a successful shop which challenges his own for business. It is the first film based on the 1916 play Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse.
The year before, reunited with Lean for the period comedy Hobson's Choice, he had provided a characterisation which had a representative blend of rumbustiousness and delicacy of detail.
A Hobson's choice is an apparently free choice that is really no choice at all. In this book it is a play on the main character's name and describes the choice between immortality and provable life after death.
The 2014 season included productions of All My Sons, Hobson's Choice, Twelfth Night (re- imagined for everyone aged six and over) and Porgy and Bess. To Kill A Mockingbird returned to the Open Air Theatre ahead of a major UK tour.
After leaving Oxford in 1973, Hauser directed many West End productions including Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (Savoy, 1987), with Charlton Heston as Sir Thomas More. His last production was the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Hobson's Choice.
Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. Based on the 1916 play Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse, it follows the tale of a coarse bootshop owner who becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. It was produced by the leading British company of the time, British International Pictures, at their studios in Elstree. The film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean.Variety film review; 3 March 1954, page 6.Harrison's Reports film review; 12 June 1954, page 94. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse.
Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.
Herbet Lomas (17 January 1887 – 12 April 1961) was a British actor who appeared in more than forty films in a career lasting between 1931 and 1955. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire and made his first film appearance in an early sound version of Hobson's Choice (1931).
Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film, and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson appeared in such films as The Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Originally planned as a venue for short dramatic plays, the early shows at the Princess failed to attract an audience.Bloom and Vlastnik, pp. 230–31 Even so, some of these plays found success elsewhere. For example, Hobson's Choice (1915) played well in London the following year and became a success on film.
It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, Brenda De Banzie as his eldest daughter and John Mills as a timid employee. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinema roles as Vicky. Hobson's Choice won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film 1954.
Highlights include: the company's first Shakespearean production - A Midsummer Night's dream - in 2002, performed both in the village hall and in the open air at the stunning St. Paul's walden Bury gardens, as well as Much Ado About Nothing, Hobson's Choice, Allo, Allo, Blackadder, Calendar Girls, See How They Run,...more on the website.
In the spring of 1793, Major General Anthony Wayne moved his forces from the training center at Legionville, PA, down the Ohio River by barge to a camp outside Fort Washington that was called Hobson's Choice. In the fall, Wayne departed Fort Washington and moved his army northward, past Fort Jefferson, to build Fort Greene Ville.
The 4th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 to 29 June 1954. This year's festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting. This continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin "A-Status" in 1956. David Lean won the Golden Bear by the audience voting for his film Hobson's Choice at the festival.
At the time of the actor's early death, Michael Billington admitted to most "treasuring"Michael Billington, "Paul Bhattacharjee: 'He could play just about anything'", guardian.co.uk, 18 July 2013. Bhattacharjee's performance as Hari Hobson in a version of Hobson's Choice. The adaptation of the original Harold Brighouse play by Tanika Gupta,Billington's review in 2003 erroneously gives the dramatist's first name as "Tankika".
Hobson's Choice, is an historic home located at Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland. It is a five-bay, two-and-a-half-story rectangular brick house built about 1830, with a low-pitched gable roof and a recent low two-story frame rear wing. The woodwork is Greek Revival in influence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Paddock, Terri."Review:'On Your Toes'" whatsonstage.com, 8 August 2003 In 2005 she won the TMA (Theatrical Management Association) Award for Best Performance in a Musical"2005 Nominees & Winners" tmauk.org, retrieved 5 April 2010 playing Mabel in Mack & Mabel at the Watermill Theatre.Paddock, Terri.Soul Follows Jerry with Mack & Mabel at Watermill whatsonstage.com, 8 April 2005 She originated the role of Dot in the London revival of Sunday in the Park with George at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2005.Paddock, Terri.Extensions: Sunday in the Park & Emperor Jones whatsonstage.com, 4 January 2006 After that she went on to play Maggie in Hobson's Choice from May to July 2006 at Watermill Theatre"Watermill – Hobson's Choice" newburytheatre.co.uk, retrieved 5 April 2010 before giving birth to her daughter. During 2009 she appeared in Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
During the 1950s, Bester contributed a satiric sketch, "I Remember Hiroshima," to The Paul Winchell Show. His later story "Hobson's Choice" was based on it. In 1959, Bester adapted his 1954 story "Fondly Fahrenheit" to television as Murder and the Android. Telecast in color on October 18, 1959, the hour-long drama took place in the year 2359 amid futuristic sets designed by Ted Cooper.
She never remarried. He was cast as Thomas Becket in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral in Robert Helpmann's production at The Old Vic theatre in 1952 but, although his return to stage was well received, his illness forced him to withdraw during the run. For the same reason, he dropped out of the film Hobson's Choice (1954). Scheduled to play Willy Mossop, he was replaced by John Mills.
She was the daughter of Edward Thomas de Banzie, conductor and musical director and his second wife Dorothy (née Lancaster), whom he married in 1908. In 1911, the family lived in Salford, Lancashire. She appeared as Maggie Hobson in the David Lean film version of Hobson's Choice (1954) with John Mills and Charles Laughton, set in Salford. Laughton allegedly didn't like de Banzie, because she wasn't getting 'her part right'.
In the First World War, Brighouse was declared unfit for combat, but joined what later became the Royal Air Force, and was seconded to the Air Ministry Intelligence Staff, where in his spare time he wrote Hobson's Choice. In 1919 he moved to Hampstead, London. In 1958 he collapsed in the Strand and died the following day in Charing Cross Hospital. His estate amounted to just under £14,500.
The Merrimac coup (also known as Hobson's coup or Hobson's choice) is a contract bridge coup where a player (usually a defender) sacrifices a high card in order to eliminate a vital entry from an opponent's hand (usually a dummy). It was named after American steam ship Merrimac, which was sunk during the Spanish–American War in 1898 in Santiago de Cuba in an attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet.
In 1953 he played Herod Antipas in Salome, and he reprised his role as Henry VIII in Young Bess, a 1953 drama about Henry's children. He returned to Britain to star in Hobson's Choice (1954), directed by David Lean. Laughton received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He played a British admiral in Under Ten Flags (1960) and worked with Laurence Olivier in Spartacus (1960).
Meanwhile, President Washington commissioned Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to recruit and train a more effective force. If peace negotiations failed, Wayne was to bring U.S. sovereignty to the western frontier. Wayne commanded about 2,000 men, with Joseph Bartholomew, Choctaw and Chickasaw men serving as his scouts. In the spring of 1793, Wayne moved the Legion from Pennsylvania downriver to Fort Washington, at a camp Wayne named Hobson's Choice because they had no other options.
According to Lyn Gardner writing in The Guardian, "it was Castledine's head that was demanded by the council as the price of underwriting the theatre's deficit." From the summer of 1990, when Castledine left the Playhouse to Christmas 1991, Executive Director, David Edwards, was in charge of scheduling the programme, which culminated in the Playhouse's production of Hobson's Choice winning the Theatrical Management Association's Regional Theatre Award for Best Overall Production.Theatrical Management Association. Previous Awards .
In 1994, Jess acquired his step father's last name "Jackson" and started producing music in his bedroom, with his neighbour Simon Franks. In 1997, at the age of seventeen, he had released his third UK garage record, "Hobson's Choice", with DJ Redz as Active Minds. The song was an inspiration to the beginning of a new genre, "UK Garage". In 1999, Jackson got in a studio with singer Andrew Roachford released the single "24-7-365" to Sony Music.
Walking Happy is a musical with music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by Roger O. Hirson and Ketti Frings. The story is based on the 1916 play Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse. The musical was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The title song "Walking Happy" was originally meant to be used in the 1963 film Papa's Delicate Condition, with Jackie Gleason singing it, but it was dropped before the film's release.
He also appeared in The Party, Plunder, Saint Joan, Hobson's Choice, Amadeus (as Salieri), Much Ado About Nothing (as Dogberry), The Dutch Courtesan, The Crucible, Mother Courage, and Juno and the Paycock. Finlay made appearances on Broadway, in Epitaph for George Dillon (1958–1959), and in the National Theatre and Broadway productions of Filumena opposite Joan Plowright in 1980. Between November 1988 and April 1989, Finlay toured Australia, performing in Jeffrey Archer's Beyond Reasonable Doubt at theatres in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
20 The façade of the theatre was restored in 1994. Looking back at past shows, the Lyric's website in 2020 singled out eleven productions from the 1990s. The first four were Burn This, starring John Malkovich (1990); Cameron Mackintosh's production of Five Guys Named Moe, which ran from 1990 to 1995; a musical revival Ain't Misbehavin' (1995); and Leo McKern in Hobson's Choice from the Chichester Festival. In 1995 the theatre hosted an unusual show described as the "Australian dance sensation Tap Dogs".
It features prominently in David Lean's romantic comedy Hobson's Choice (1954) and in Richard Brooks's drama Elmer Gantry (1960). A caricatural vocal rendition of the song (with new revival-style lyrics) is used for both a car chase and the end credits of Howard Morris' caper comedy, Who's Minding the Mint? (1967). It is also included in the film adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (film). Part of the hymn was sung in the Academy Award-winning period film, Trip to Bountiful (1985).
Hobson's Choice is an historic home located near Alberta, Brunswick County, Virginia. It was built in the Palladian style about 1794 by Dr. Richard Feild for his bride Ann Meade, on land the groom bought from his father-in-law. The Edinburgh educated physician also had considerable knowledge of botany and astronomy, edited The Intelligencer and Petersburg Commercial Advertiser, and three times served as a Presidential elector. Although Feild died in 1829, the plantation stayed in the family until 1870.
She also appeared in the TV movie versions of Hobson's Choice (1983) and Samson and Delilah (1984). In 1985, she starred in Misfits of Science, a short-lived television series about a group of superheroes who fight crime for a scientific think tank. In the 1980s, Holmes was also a guest star on many television shows, including Knight Rider, The Rockford Files, Lou Grant, Fame, Webster, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Hart to Hart, Voyagers! and Tales of the Unexpected.
In 1915, Payne produced the first staging of Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse for The Shubert Organization.In 1916 he directed John Barrymore in his first success in a serious role, in the American premiere of Justice by John Galsworthy. According to Angus L. Bowmer, founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a financial backer demanded that Barrymore be replaced, fearing a disastrous drinking binge. Payne replied, in effect, that if they replaced Barrymore they would have to find a new director.
She was born, Doreen Ilse Johnson in Bedford Park, London, England. She was an actress, known in later life for her character parts, usually as loud and aggressive matronly women. She began her acting career in 1925 with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the play The Farmers Wife. She is best known for her film parts in The Spider and the Fly (1949), Alice in Wonderland (1946) and Hobson's Choice (1954), The Ladykillers (1955) and A Kid for Two Farthings (1955).
A production of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, tailored specifically for children aged six and over, ran alongside. Returning to close the 2013 season, Rachel Kavanaugh directed a sell-out and extended run of The Sound of Music starring Charlotte Wakefield as Maria. With over 188,000 visitors, the 2013 season broke all records. The 2014 season began with Arthur Miller's All My Sons, directed by Timothy Sheader, followed by Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night re-imagined for aged six and over.
He appeared in 118 films between 1921 and 1959. He was known for The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Oliver Twist (1948) and Hobson's Choice (1954). He had a rare leading role as the sleuth J.G. Reeder in Edgar Wallace's Mr Reeder in Room 13 (1938) released in the U.S. as Mystery of Room 13 (1941). Skeletal, lugubrious, latterly prune-faced, character actor, he was popular on screen as a master of disguise, which allowed him to slip into just about any ethnic part or Dickensian role.
He worked with Dunlop again in The Pantomime at the Bristol Old Vic, before a season at Nottingham Playhouse with Dunlop and John Neville. Other theatre credits include working for The Royal Court production company in Chips with Everything, which played in the West End and on Broadway. He appeared in Othello (understudying Frank Finlay's Iago) with Olivier at the National Theatre at Chichester and The Old Vic. Other performances in this period include roles in Dutch Courtesan, Mother Courage, Hobson's Choice, and The Master Builder.
Noakes got the opportunity to join Blue Peter when producer Biddy Baxter needed a third presenter to join Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton after the show went from a weekly to a twice-weekly format. Baxter spotted Noakes at the Phoenix Theatre in Leicester where he was playing Willie Mossop in the play Hobson's Choice. Noakes joined Blue Peter as a presenter on 30 December 1965. Peter Purves replaced Trace in 1967, creating the 'Val, John and Pete' line-up which lasted until 1972.
The Terminal Experiment is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Robert J. Sawyer. The book won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. Sawyer received a writer's reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council in 1993 in support of his writing the novel. The story was first serialised in Analog magazine in the mid-December 1994 to March 1995 issues, under the name Hobson's Choice, before its first novel publication in May, 1995.
Warren has a number of Broadway production directing credits to his name, including Holiday, Summer and Smoke and Misalliance. His other, more extensive work includes the Jekyll & Hyde and Copacabana national tours, and several significant off-Broadway productions including Pterodactyls, Matt & Ben, Minutes from the Blue Route, Night and Her Stars, Hurrah at Last, The Dazzle, Raised in Captivity, Hobson's Choice and Drumstruck. He also has many credits for regional theatres including, among many others, Baltimore Center Stage, New York Stage and Film and South Coast Repertory.
The Man Between (1953) was an attempt to repeat the success of The Third Man. Korda then helped to make The Heart of the Matter (1954), Hobson's Choice (1954), The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), and The Teckman Mystery (1954). A draft screenplay of what became The Red Shoes was written by Emeric Pressburger in the 1930s for Korda and intended as a vehicle for Merle Oberon, whom Korda later married. The screenplay was bought by Michael Powell and Pressburger, who made it for J. Arthur Rank.
The work consisted of four brief scenes from the play, and a two-minute fragment survives at the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. McKinnel did not act on screen again until the mid-1910s, when he began to make further film appearances fitted in around his stage work. He played the title character in the original London production of Hobson's Choice in 1916. Notably, he appeared as the same character (Nathaniel Jeffcote) in three separate film versions of the same play Hindle Wakes, in 1918 and 1927 silent adaptations and again in 1931 in sound.
All of these plays were set in Lancashire but Brighouse also wrote plays of a different type, such as The Oak Settle and Maid of France. His most successful play was Hobson's Choice, first produced in 1915 in New York where Payne was working. It was first produced in England in 1916 at the Apollo Theatre, London, where it ran for 246 performances. The play was made into a film, directed by David Lean, in 1953, and it was produced at the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, in 1964.
Howarth ran a small cinema after the outbreak of the First World War, having been a member of the Lancashire Fusiliers during that war. From 1935, he also ran his own theatre in Colwyn Bay, taking most of the male roles himself, due to the lack of men available to play the parts. He toured the country in theatre performances where he met and married his wife Betty in Hull in July 1929. He also appeared in a number of films including The Man in the White Suit (1951) and Hobson's Choice (1954).
It was here during a production of Hobson's Choice that he first got the drama bug and played the part of Willie Mossop. He went on to join the National Youth Theatre. Bushell obtained a 2:1 degree in Drama & Television at King Alfred's College in Winchester, now the University of Winchester. Once he left he appeared as a Roman Centurion and King Arthur on the streets of Winchester, for the tourist board, and in the National Youth Theatre production of Good Lads at Heart, working alongside Liza Tarbuck.
54 His plays include 'The Holly and the Ivy', which was first produced at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1950 and was adopted to a film of the same title in 1952, for which he wrote the screenplay. His first play was 'Dark Summer' and other works include 'A Question of Fact' and 'The Ring of Truth'. A traditional dramatist, his work fell out of fashion as 'Kitchen sink' dramas revolutionised the London stage. He also adapted the Harold Brighouse play 'Hobson's Choice' for the screen in 1954.
Decisions surrounding nuclear waste siting by the tribes, especially Mescalaro and Goshutes, brought up issues of tribal sovereignty, economic exploitation, forcing Western democracy on tribes, and cultural imperialism. Expecting a tribe to 'volunteer' to handle the waste was described as a "modern Hobson's choice". Further, the relative wealth of the Mescalero compared to the Skull Valley band raised the question if consent could be freely given by the band. Targeting Skull Valley for waste can be seen as part of an ongoing failure of exploitation and environmental justice.
Princess Badr al-Budur in Aladdin, Princess Belle Sakura in The Prince of the Pagodas (2011), Spring in Cinderella, the title role of Sylvia, Titania in The Dream, Carmina Burana, Hobson's Choice, Candy Kane in The Nutcracker Sweeties, Spring and Winter in The Seasons, Beauty and the Beast, Celeritas² in E=mc², Allegri diversi, Les petits riens, and The Sons of Horus by David Bintley. Other repertory includes works by Galina Samsova, Kim Brandstrup, Oliver Hindle, Kit Holder, Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer, Garry Stewart, Twyla Tharp, and Sir Peter Wright.
Many African nations cannot afford to offer medicine for their citizens without subsidies from multinational pharmaceutical corporations. To court these pharmaceutical corporations, some African nations minimize legal regulations on the conduct of medical research, which prevents potential legal battles from arising. This forces some Africans to make a Hobson's choice: "experimental medicine or no medicine at all".Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid, Anchor Books 2006 p394 People living in the rural or slum area are also more vulnerable to experimentation because they are more likely to be illiterate and to misunderstand the effects of the experimentation.
Born in Dublin, he was educated there in a private school. While a schoolboy he achieved some reputation as a writer of farces and musical extravaganzas, and his dramatic essays were performed at the Dublin theatres in Smock Alley, Crow Street, Capel Street, and Fishamble Street. Most of these pieces were published. About 1786, Oulton left Dublin, still a youth, to try his fortunes in London. John Palmer, the lessee of the Royalty Theatre in Wellclose Square, accepted the offer of his services, and in 1787 he produced Oulton's ‘Hobson's Choice, or Thespis in Distress,’ a satire on contemporary theatrical enterprise.
The following year, Gutteridge wrote and directed the ITV ice ballet Sleeping Beauty, with Robin Cousins,Stage and Television Today, 2 April 1987, Production NewsBrewer, Stacey, Yorkshire Evening Press, 19 February 1987, TV Talk: 'Ice One, Robin' which also won Best Director at the International Monitor Awards. Also in 1987 he directed a film of the Ravel opera 'L'Enfant et Les Sortileges' at Glyndebourne, conducted by Simon Rattle. In 1990, he directed the full-length David Bintley ballet Hobson's Choice with the Birmingham Royal Ballet. In 1991 Gutteridge directed an hour-long comedy special for ITV Lenny Go Home with Lenny Henry.
The newly formed Legion moved in December 1792 to an encampment downriver on the Ohio near Fort McIntosh named Legionville for training. In September 1793, the Legion moved by barge down the Ohio to a camp named Hobson's Choice two miles from Fort Washington (Cincinnati) on the western frontier. There it was joined by units from the Kentucky Militia. Their assignment was to advance to the site of St. Clair's earlier defeat, recover the cannons lost there, and continue to the Miami capital at Kekionga to establish U.S. sovereignty over northern and western Ohio and beyond.
"Waterloo Road – Eva Pope plays Rachel Mason" Press release at BBC web site Her theatre credits include roles in The Comedy of Errors, Turkey Time and Hobson's Choice. She is a regular performer (and part of the original cast) of the international touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners and in November 2007, appeared at the Théâtre Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo, directed by Marc Sinden, as part of his British Theatre Season, Monaco. In March 2011, Pope starred as Ellie in the BBC One daytime drama 32 Brinkburn Street. She starred in Being Sold the Movie, which premiered on 19 June 2011.
A re-release of this song the following year fared even better, peaking at #9, due to the success of their #1 single "Sweet Like Chocolate". Jess Jackson was responsible for many garage records but one which stood out was "Hobson's Choice". The B-side of this record changed the UK garage scene from funky and soulful to dark and bassy. Another example of the evolution in 2-step was the release of "Troublesome" in 1999 by Shy Cookie and DJ Luck, in which non-sampled 2-step beats were merged with a full ragga vocal (performed by ragga artist Troublesome).
Hubert Black House is a historic house and farm located in Woodbine (Formerly Florence), Howard County, Maryland. It was named after J. Hubert Black, a Howard County parole officer, and later, a County Commissioner who ran on a no growth platform in 1962, who approved the Rouse Company development of Columbia, Maryland. The Black House sits on a 250-acre former dairy farmed by the Black family since 1883. The land is part of a group of original land patents named Hobson's Choice, Wise Man's Folly, Additional Defense, Range Declined, Acorn Hill, Ridgley's Great Park, The Dispute, and Dispute Ended.
Mark Pegg is a British actor and film producer. He first came to prominence as Detective Constable Tony Weir in the BBC production Our Friends in the North and has since appeared in many television and stage productions, including Frank Hauser's Chichester Festival Theatre's 1995 production of Hobson's Choice with Leo McKern. He trained at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. In 2006, he produced the feature film Heroes and Villains which starred James Corden and Jenny Agutter, and in 2007 he was the Executive Producer on Stuart Urban's Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.
William Gibbs McAdoo, who won the 1932 California U.S. Senate election By 1932, Shuler was a nationally known political and religious figure, and he announced his intention to run for the United State Senate. He was the Prohibition Party candidate in the 1932 Senate election against Democrat William G. McAdoo and Republican Tallant Tubbs. The Los Angeles Times refused to endorse any of the three candidates, calling it "Hobson's choice" for voters, and criticizing Shuler for his "demagogic appeals to discontent." In a remarkable about-face, the Los Angeles Record endorsed Shuler on the day before the general election.
This led to a string of high-profile projects, including Anna Karenina (1948), The African Queen (1951) and Beat the Devil (1953), both for director John Huston, Hobson's Choice (1954) and Tunes of Glory (1960). He won a BAFTA for the wartime flying epic The Blue Max in 1966, after which he moved seamlessly into the world of TV, working on the stylish hit series The Avengers. He received an Emmy nomination for the miniseries Holocaust in 1978, winning the award two years later for the TV movie Gauguin the Savage. His last film – for which he received a BAFTA nomination – was the Merchant Ivory film Heat and Dust in 1983.
In "Cape May" Red tells of a time he had to make a Hobson's choice: to save a child and lose her mother or lose both, saying it was the hardest choice he made by far in his life. While it initially seems he is referring to Liz' recent death, a later conversation reveals that the allusion was toward saving Liz (née Masha) as a child and losing her mother, Katarina. In "Alexander Kirk: Conclusion", Liz is revealed to be alive, her death having been faked by Kaplan to protect her and Agnes. Liz is reunited with Tom and Agnes in Cuba, but is captured by Alexander Kirk's men.
The production toured Britain's cities before a run in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. In 2013 a new production of the classic play Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre London, Shaw played the part of the dissenting juror (identified as juror number 8.) In 2016 Shaw toured and hit the West End again with a lively production of Hobson's Choice at the Vaudeville. After completing filming the final episode of George Gently, Shaw again toured in 2017 with the U.K. premier of Gore Vidal's 1960 political piece: The Best Man. Shaw played the part of William Russell, former US Secretary of State.
Wattis's other films included Hobson's Choice, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Carry On Spying, The Colditz Story, Dentist on the Job, Very Important Person, The Happiest Days of Your Life, and The Longest Day. He also appeared on television, including a long-running role in Sykes and as a storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory, narrating in fourteen episodes between 1971 and 1972. Other television credits include appearances in Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Goodies, Hancock's Half Hour, and Father, Dear Father. From 1957 to 1958, he appeared as Peter Jamison in three episodes of the American sitcom Dick and the Duchess.
Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by the age of 30 his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain. His natural melodic gift earned him a reputation as a composer of light music in works such as some of his concert overtures and the sets of Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish and Cornish dances. He was also a highly successful composer of film music, penning the scores to over a hundred features and documentaries, including titles such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hobson's Choice and the St Trinian's series.
In 2013 Sheader directed a new production of Barnum at Chichester Festival Theatre. The previous year he directed The Magistrate at the Royal National Theatre which starred John Lithgow. At the beginning of 2015 he directed My Fair Lady at the Aarhus Teater in Denmark. Other productions that Sheader has directed include Imagine This (New London Theatre); Hobson's Choice, The Clandestine Marriage, Love in a Maze (Watermill); Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); The Star Throwers, Unless (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Misconceptions (Derby Playhouse); Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic); Achilles (Edinburgh Fringe First); Wild, Wild Women (Orange Tree); Arms and the Man (National Tour) Piaf, Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible).
View north along MD 94 at MD 144 in Lisbon MD 94 begins at the Howard-Montgomery county line at a bridge over the Patuxent River. The highway continues south into Montgomery County as county-maintained Annapolis Rock Road, which intersects MD 108 (Damascus Road) east of Damascus. MD 94 heads northeast as a two-lane undivided road and passes through Patuxent River State Park as it ascends out of the narrow river valley and passes to the west of a steep hill named Annapolis Rock. The state highway crosses Cabin Branch and passes through the hamlet of Florence, where the highway intersects Florence Road; Florence Road leads east to the historic homes Cherry Grove and Hobson's Choice.
The following year she appeared in London's West End for the first time as Winnie in The Cage at the Savoy Theatre. Her subsequent West End plays included A Damsel in Distress, Happy Families, The Merchant and Venus, Lovers' Meeting, Line Engaged, Night Must Fall—also acting in the 1937 film version—Flare Path, Ducks and Drakes, The Winslow Boy and Watch It Sailor!. She had already made her film debut with a minor role in Our Boys (1915), when she appeared in the film Hobson's Choice (1931). Another 50 films followed, including Gaslight (1940), In Which We Serve (1942) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), before making her name in later films.
Monument at the site of Legionville The Legion created the United States Military's first basic training facility at Legionville in western Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Ohio River. This was created, in part, to escape the negative affect that Pittsburgh had on discipline. In autumn 1793, the Legion decamped by barge and advanced to the western Ohio frontier down the Ohio River to a camp near Fort Washington dubbed "Hobson's Choice," where they were joined by units of the Kentucky Militia under Virginia Brigadier General Charles Scott. A month later, the Legion moved northward past the western outposts Fort Hamilton, Fort St. Clair, and Fort Jefferson into Native American territory and established Fort Greene Ville.
In the summer of 2007, Casey played Serena Katz in a hit run of the musical Fame at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and in February 2008 she began playing the role Julia in the pre-West End UK tour of The Wedding Singer. Her other stage credits include The Vagina Monologues (Palace Theatre, Manchester), Hobson's Choice (Watermill Theatre opposite her sister Anna-Jane Casey), Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse), Well at the Trafalgar Studios, and the Apollo Theatre, opposite Sarah Miles and most recently Ado Annie in Oklahoma! at the Chichester Festival Theatre. She took over from Denise Van Outen in Legally Blonde at The Savoy Theatre as Paulette from 26 April 2011.
In the film I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), another Powell and Pressburger production, Laurie had a small speaking part in a céilidh sequence for which he was also credited as an adviser. In the next decade, he played the psychiatrist Dr. James Garsten in Mine Own Executioner (1947), the repugnant Pew in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), Angus in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), and Dr. MacFarlane in Hobson's Choice (1954). Laurie's role as Private Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker, and British Home Guard soldier in the sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) remains his best known TV role, although he featured in many British series of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s including Tales of Mystery, Doctor Finlay's Casebook, and The Avengers.
Sandra Elizabeth Madgwick (born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire on 7 March 1963) is a retired English ballerina and former principal dancer at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, where she worked for 19 years. She initially trained at the Royal Ballet School and took over extensive roles both at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden appearing in works such as The Nutcracker, The Two Pigeons, Coppélia, Les Patineurs, and Carmina Burana. She is well known for the role of Clara in the recorded and live-aired performance of 'The Nutcracker' in 1994. Her other recorded works include the studio-recorded performance of Hobson's Choice (1992), in which she starred as Hobson's daughter Vicky, and Royal Opera House performance of Coppélia (1995) in which starred as Swanhilda.
The musical premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre (as part of the final season of Jonathan Church as artistic director and Alan Finch as executive producer) from 14 July to 2 September 2016 as a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh. It was originally announced that Bryan Dick would star as Kipps, however he later withdrew to appear in the West End production of Hobson's Choice. It was later announced that newcomer Charlie Stemp would take over as Arthur Kipps alongside Devon-Elise Johnson as Ann Pornick, Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow, Emma Williams as Helen Walsingham and Vivien Parry as Mrs Walsingham. The production is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, designed by Paul Brown, choreographed by Andrew Wright, orchestrations by William David Brohn, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter and video design by Luke Halls.
But not all reviewers were impressed: writing in the New Statesman, Seán O'Casey said "there isn't a character in it worth a curse, and there isn't a thought in it worth remembering."A review – The thing that counts, New Statesman, 9 February 1935. Love on the Dole drew the British public's attention to a social problem in the United Kingdom in a similar way that Look Back in Anger, Cathy Come Home or Boys from the Blackstuff would do for future generations (although its style is closer to Hobson's Choice). The historian Stephen Constantine attributed its impact to the way it moved the mostly middle class audiences without blaming themStephen Constantine, "Love on the Dole and Its Reception in the 1930s," in Literature and History (1982), 232–49.
She worked for many years as a chorus girl in the West End until her first break as an actress came along. At sixteen she danced at the Windsor Club with Danny La Rue and Barbara Windsor, changing her name before making her West End debut in 1961's Babes in the Wood. Throughout the 1960s, Barrie worked on many stage productions including Cabaret, Private Lives, Hobson's Choice and Aladdin, and continued to perform on stage until the mid-1980s. She is well known as Alma Sedgewick (later Baldwin), in Coronation Street. She was a bit-player in the early to mid-1980s before she was offered a contract in 1988, after which her character became high profile. She continued in the role until her retirement in 2001.
An unseen narrator (who we gradually come to learn is telling the story of his mother and step-father's romance) looks back to the year 1956, in the Elm Park neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, to one Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli), an Italian guy with "Ralph Kramdenesque" dreams. Buddy is a wannabe crooner (with a voiceover provided by Andrew Poretz). Buddy had nearly been discovered by Arthur Godfrey ten years earlier (shown in flashback) when he performed at a USO show while in the service. His fiancée, Estelle (Kathrine Narducci), gave him a Hobson's choice: “Who's it gonna be, Buddy, Arthur Godfrey or me?” In a decision he’ll live to regret the rest of his life, he chooses Estelle, and over the next 10 years tries all sorts of schemes to get ahead. “I just wanna be somebody!” he’ll declare.
"Plimpton Emmy LIst" emmys.com, accessed March 21, 2015 She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2011 for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy in the first season of Raising Hope." 'Raising Hope' Emmy List" emmys.com, accessed March 21, 2015 Plimpton won the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series as Patti Nyholm on The Good Wife. Plimpton won the 2001 Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for Hobson's Choice."2001–2002 Obie Awards" infoplease.com, accessed March 22, 2015 She also won the 2007 Drama Desk AwardPortantiere, Michael. " 'Coast of Utopia', 'Spring Awakening' Top Drama Desk Awards" theatermania.com, May 18, 2007 and the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2008 for her role in Coast of Utopia, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2009 for Pal Joey.
Although a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he also attributes credit to YouthAction NI's The Rainbow Factory, school of the performing arts, in Belfast where he played a variety of roles including 'Ralph' in The Lord of the Flies at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast). Whilst at Trinity he appeared in Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest; Interludes, based on from Viaje del Parnaso by Miguel de Cervantes; and The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov culminating in performances at the Abbey Theatre and The Ambassadors Theatre London. After college he has gone on to star in mostly stage musicals, playing 'Brad' in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change in the Dublin premier and Irish tour, 'Prez' in The Pajama Game, Union Theatre (London) 'Frank' in Mack and Mabel Broadway Theatre, Catford and more recently as 'Willie Mossop' in Hobson's Choice, London 2010.
In the spring of 1793, Wayne moved the Legion from Pennsylvania downriver to Fort Washington, at a camp Wayne named Hobson's Choice because they had no other options. They conducted training there during the Sandusky River council. Upon news of the Grand Council's failure in September, Wayne advanced his troops north into Indian held territory. In November, the Legion built a new fort north of Fort Jefferson, which Wayne named Fort Greeneville on 20 November 1793 in honor of General Nathanael Greene. The Legion wintered here, but Wayne dispatched a detachment of about 300 men on 23 December to quickly build Fort Recovery on the site of St. Clair's defeat and recover the cannons lost there in 1791. In January 1794, Wayne reported to Knox that 8 companies and a detachment of artillery under Major Henry Burbeck had claimed St. Clair's battleground and had already built a small fort.
In 1979, after thrice refusing, Newton accepted an appointment as artistic director of the Shaw Festival. During his tenure, Newton continued the work to expand and enrich the Shaw Festival repertory company, turning it into one of the finest repertory companies in the world. He is acknowledged to be the finest and most inspirational Canadian theatre director of the 20th and 21st century due to his sensitive and enlightened handling of both plays and actors. Newton directed a number of critically acclaimed productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1983), Heartbreak House (1985), Major Barbara (1987), Man and Superman (1989), Misalliance (1990), Pygmalion (1992), Candida (1993) and You Never Can Tell (1995), as well as Henry Arthur Jones's The Silver King, William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, St. John Hankin's The Return of the Prodigal, and Noël Coward's Cavalcade.
He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954), as well as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the British Society of Cinematographers Award. His first film was Freedom of the Seas in 1934, as a focus-puller, before working as camera operator on films for Leslie Howard and others, including Pygmalion, The Divorce of Lady X and Pimpernel Smith. His first film as cinematographer was Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, which gave him invaluable experience of colour cinematography and his subsequent films made him one of the most sought after cameramen in England. His other films included Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Anastasia (1956), The Sundowners (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963), Battle of the Bulge (1965), Casino Royale (1967), The Beast Must Die (1974), Emily (1976), and The Wild Geese (1978).
Since its inception, Atlantic has produced more than 200 plays, including the Tony Award winning productions of Spring AwakeningHealy, Patrick (August 30, 2010). "Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2010. and The Band's Visit, David Mamet’s adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker, Mamet’s Romance, Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange, Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson, Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block, the revival of Hobson's Choice, the revivals of Mamet's American Buffalo, The Woods, and Edmond, Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestley, The Cider House Rules, adapted by Peter Parnell, Celebration, The Room and The Hothouse by Harold Pinter, Mojo by Jez Butterworth, the New York premieres of Howard Korder’s Boys’ Life and The Lights at Lincoln Center Theater, Kevin Heelan’s Distant Fires, Quincy Long’s The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite and Shaker Heights, Tom Donaghy’s Minutes From The Blue Route, Edwin Sánchez’ Trafficking in Broken Hearts, and Missing Persons by Craig Lucas.
Retrieved 2011-07-04.Cox, James (2000). The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Volume 2 , sleeve notes (PDF). Chandos Records. Retrieved 2011-07-04. In 1957, Arnold won an Academy Award for the music to David Lean's epic film The Bridge on the River Kwai. His two other collaborations with David Lean were The Sound Barrier (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954), both of which were also resoundingly successful. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) won Arnold an Ivor Novello Award. Also during the 1950s – an especially prolific period for Arnold – he provided a series of successful scores for major British and American feature films, such as The Captain's Paradise (1953), The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954), The Night My Number Came Up (1955), The Constant Husband (1955), I Am a Camera (1955), 1984 (1956), Trapeze (1956), A Hill in Korea (1956), Dunkirk (1958), The Key (1958) and The Roots of Heaven (1958).
She has created roles for ballets, including: Bintley's Titania in The Shakespeare Suite, Annunciation in The Protecting Veil, Wild Girl in the Beauty and the Beast, Kim Brandstrup's Pimpinella in Pulcinella, Lila York's Sanctum, Stanton Welch's Powder and Luciano Cannito's Te voglio bene assaje. Her principal repertory: Giselle (title role), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), the Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), the Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy), Coppélia (Swanilda), Don Quixote (Kitri), la Fille mal gardée (Lise), Cinderella (title role), Bournonville's Napoli (title role), le Corsaire, Diana and Actaeon pas de deux, Paquita, la Bayadère, Études (leading role), Graduation Ball, Elite Syncopations ('Calliope Rag'), Solitaire (Polka Girl), The Two Pigeons (Young Girl), Voices of Spring, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, Enigma Variations (Dorabella), Apollo (Polyhymnia), Symphonic Variations, Serenade, Symphony in Three Movements, The Four Temperaments (Sanguine Variation), Concerto barocco, Square Dance, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, Tarantella, Western Symphony, Bintley's Far from the Madding Crowd (Bathsheba), Edward II (Isabella), Arthur (Guinevere), Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Hobson's Choice (Vickey Hobson, Salvation Army), Carmina burana (Lover Girl), Choros, Dance House, The Seasons ('Spring'), Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and van Manen's Five Tangos.
Mills (middle) with Alastair Sim and Yvonne Mitchell in Escapade (1955) Mills had his first hit in a number of years with Hobson's Choice (1954), directed by Lean. He appeared in war film The Colditz Story (1955). Mills played a support role in a movie for MGM, The End of the Affair (1955) with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson. More liked in Britain was another war story, Above Us the Waves (1955); this was sixth most popular film at the British box office that year, and helped Mills be the fifth most popular star in the country. After Escapade (1955), Mills made the popular military comedy The Baby and the Battleship (1956), one of the biggest hits of 1956. Also on that list was another Mills comedy, It's Great to Be Young (1956). Mills had a key support role as a peasant in War and Peace (1956) and made a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days (1956). Mills appeared in the thrillers: Town on Trial (1957) directed by John Guillermin and The Vicious Circle (1957). More popular with the public were the war films: Dunkirk (1958), the second most popular film of the year in Britain; Ice Cold in Alex (1958), directed by J. Lee Thompson; and I Was Monty's Double'(1958), directed by Guillermin.

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