Sentence examples for repeat the role from inspiring English sources

Julie Andrews's Tony-winning stage performance as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady made her a star, but she was deemed insufficiently famous to repeat the role on screen, as Jack Warner enlisted Hepburn's gracious (albeit less golden-voiced) services instead.

Although the tales are graceful and satisfying, the movie's most extraordinary sequence is its epilogue, in which Pirandello (played by Omero Antonutti, who would repeat the role 14 years later in the prologue of "Tu Ridi") returns to his hometown in Sicily after a long absence and meets the ghost of his mother.

As for Mr. Wong, the yellowface role is unpleasant (and I'd like to think that Murphy, were he making comedies today, wouldn't repeat the role), but it's done with a substantial personal point: in the drama, set in a small town, there's a white community and a black community, but no Asian community.

And when books do not sell, which is usually the case, it is tiresome to play and then repeat the roles required: muse, publicist and interpreter.

He repeated the role on TV two years later.

She repeated the role the next year in a PBS production, with her father as the White Knight.

Matthau repeated the role in the 1968 film, with Lemmon as Felix.

Marie Sellers of Hampton Bays is repeating the role of Phebe's sister, Melanie.

She repeated the role there for several seasons, adding Sieglinde, under Rudolf Kempe.

Later he repeated the role in Joshua Logan's film version.

Opening night is Jan . 18 and Bette Bourne, the founder of the well-known British drag troupe Bloolips, is repeating the role.