In 1946, the "Montreal Gazette"s theatre critic Herbert Whittaker liked Plummer's role as Mr Darcy in a Montreal High School play of "Pride and Prejudice". Whittaker was also a stage director and he hired Plummer at age 18 to play Oedipus in Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale".
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