Sir Derek Jacobi to play George Bernard Shaw in a new movie
Sir Derek Jacobi will play George Bernard Shaw in a new film. The 83-year old actor will be joined by Dame Eileen Atkins – who will star as the playwright's wife and key collaborator Charlotte – in the movie 'Mr Shaw Goes To Hollywood', which charts the couple's journey to Los Angeles as they hoped to sell the screen rights to his play 'Pygmalion'. Shaw thought he had landed in a strange world and fled Hollywood in horror. He ended making the film several years later in England – as it featured British stars including Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. Following Shaw's death in 1950, Warner Bros....