Androcles and the Lion
Americannoun
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Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2011
The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion and others, are almost always interesting.
From Time Magazine Archive
In more recent years Dooley has worked in the Federal Theater Project with John Houseman and Orson Welles, played in The Show-Off, Androcles and the Lion and the Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would let them compromise on Shaw—on "Androcles and the Lion," which had just been published.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
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