Colley Cibber was not well received. In the middle of the play, he whispered to fellow actor Benjamin Victor that he wanted to go home, perhaps realising he was too old for the part and its physical demands. Cibber also essayed tragic parts in plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and others, but with less success. By the end of his acting career, audiences were being entranced by the innovatively naturalistic acting of the rising star David Garrick, who made his London debut in the title part in a production of Cibber's adaptation of "Richard III" in 1741. He returned to
So Much for So Little So Much for So Little So Much for So Little is a 1949 American short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones. In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with "A Chance to Live". As a work of the United States Government, the film is in the public domain. The Academy Film Archive preserved "So Much for So Little" in 2005. Produced during the Harry S. Truman administration, it attained renewed relevance during the Donald Trump administration nearly seven decades later. The cartoon states that, annually, 118,481 babies out of 2 million