Multiple choice

What idiosyncrasy did Alan Devlin have?

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Marilyn Monroe
For a scene she was shooting for Some Like it Hot in 1959, Marilyn Monroe was supposed to enter a room, walk to a dressing table, rummage through the drawers, find a bottle of bourbon and ask for a drink. She messed up the line no fewer than 47 times in a row – still far from the famously forgetful movie star’s record of 82 takes.
“On the 46th take,” recalled director Billy Wilder, “I told her we had put the line on pieces of paper and they were in a drawer she would open.” Unfortunately, “she went to the wrong piece of furniture.”
Sir John Gielgud The distinguished British actor Sir John Gielgud was dining in a restaurant with a playwright when Gielgud spied someone he thought he recognised. “Did you see that man just coming in?” he asked his companion. “He’s the biggest bore in London, second only to Edward Knoblock.”
At that moment he remembered that Edward Knoblock was in fact the man sitting across from him. “Not you, of course,” Gielgud quickly added. “I mean the other Edward Knoblock.”
Alan Devlin Irish actor Alan Devlin was known for his habit of leaving the stage in a fit of pique in mid performance. On one such occasion, while appearing in HMS Pinafore at the Dublin Gaiety Theatre in 1987, he looked out at the audience and shouted, “I’m going home! Finish it yourself!”

  1. He would start doing strange dances on the stage

  2. He would start shouting profanities and being abusive on stage

  3. He would leave the stage in the middle of a performance

  4. He would start singing and mimicking some famous people on stage

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Explanation

Irish actor Alan Devlin was known for his habit of leaving the stage in a fit of pique in mid performance.