He was so impressed by Brando’s preparation and dedication that he offered to direct him in a stage production. Ye Gods.” As a young man at the Old Vic Theatre in 1930, Gielgud played Mark Antony and he coached Marlon Brando for the film. John Gielgud tempted Brutus before at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1950 and would play Julius Caesar in the 1970 film version.Īs Cassius he stirs the seeds of sedition in the young idealist again, derisively mocking Caesar as weak, “Give me some drink, Titinius (John Parrish), as a sick girl. History tells us that Decimus Brutus was the third to strike Caesar, and was more likely to be thought of as a son by Caesar than the other Brutus. Philip Boyce in “The Cage,” the pilot episode of Star Trek. Hoyt was an alumnus of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre and would go on to make his bones as Dr. John Hoyt wore Decius Brutus’ tunic in 1937. James Mason struck the last blow as Brutus at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in the 40s. The two Brutuses (Brutii?) were reprisals from earlier stage performances. Most of the actors in the film had their Shakespeare bona fides and a lot of them had already done the play itself. The film was produced by John Houseman, who had staged the play with Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre players on Broadway in 1937, and starred Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar, Edmond O’Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia. That play and its unofficial sequel, Antony and Cleopatra, would spark some of the most spectacular stories in motion picture history. That period in Roman history is one of the most documented in ancient times and it was the basis for William Shakespeare’s classic play Julius Caesar. Mark Antony, who was Caesar’s underboss, united the people of Rome and went after the conspirators, finally forming a triumvirate with Lepidus and Octavian to rule the fledgling empire before “going native” in Egypt with Cleopatra. On this day in 44 BC, give or take a calendar change, Julius Caesar, who ended the Roman Republic after years of internal battles dating back to Romulus and Remus, was assassinated in a conspiracy of about 60 Senators who inflicted 23 stab wounds on the new dictator. The Roman year began in March and it took fifteen days to recover from their new year’s celebration. You can expect all manner of bad omens, murders most foul, and pretentious features like this one. In the morning when she finds Caesar getting ready for the Senate meeting, she tells him that he must not stir out of his house on this day because the watchman had witnessed some horrid sights in the course of the night.Beware the Ides of March. In fact, she had cried out three times during the night because of the dreadful dream which she had seen. During the night she had seen a dream in which she had cried out for help because she had seen Caesar being murdered in the dream. She appears in one single scene in this play. On the other hand, Calpurnia is the wife of Cassio.
Later in the play, we learn from Brutus' talk with Cassio that Portia has committed suicide. She feels so oppressed by her husband's secret and by her anxiety about her husband's safety that she finds herself on the verge of fainting. When Caesar is murdered by the conspirators, she is feeling utterly miserable. In the second scene, we notice Portia's essential femininity and her lack of that stoutness of heart. In this scene, we see Portia as a personification of the virtues which an ideal wife is expected to possess. Indeed by her love and by the dignified manner in which she speaks to Brutus, she shows herself to be a wife of whom any man would feel proud. She is a woman of extraordinary courage and fortitude who is deeply and genuinely devoted to her husband. In the first scene, she shows her wifely anxiety about her husband's state of mind. She appears in the play in only two scenes. Her father was a famous Roman patriot and idealist.
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