Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest; it may well see a lovelier...
Their forward echelon is composed of Selznick, Goldwyn and International (a holding corporation for a number of the newer lone hands, such as Writer Nunnally Johnson, Director Sam Wood and Actor Gary Cooper). Other front-rankers are Hunt Stromberg, and (potentially) crack Producer-Writer-Director Preston Sturges...
Gypsy Rose Lee, belle-lettrist, ex-ecdysiast, ex-wife of Actor Alexander Kirkland, fondly regarded her one-month-old son and announced her considered view of motherhood: "It took a long time, but from now on, it's my hobby...
...York City's 16 daily-newspaper film critics last week announced their annual awards for cinema excellence. Best picture of 1944: Going My Way. Best actor: Barry Fitzgerald, for his performance in Going My Way. Best director: Leo McCarey, for Going...
Born. To Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, literate ecdysiast; and Alexander Kirkland, 40, Manhattan actor-producer: their first child, a son; two months after her Reno divorce, one day before his marriage to strawberry-blond post-debutante Phyllis Adams, 21, theatrical tyro (The Snark was a Boojum); in Manhattan. Name: Eric Lee. Weight...