Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louise Valery is by far the best of the three Russians and in places achieves a rather genuine accent. Robert Perry has evidently spent more time in directing and less with his own part in this show; and Richard Hart continues to show that he is an outstanding young actor of whom greater things can be expected...
Comic to Cult. It took Mexico City to turn Tin Tan from a comic into a, cult. A year ago Tin Tan was a little-known radio actor in Juarez, where he had picked up his lingo in border cantinas. Actually he speaks excellent Spanish but very poor English. He got his first spot in a live show last summer, at the time of the Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, adopted the zoot-suit as a satiric badge. His act was a flop till he went to Mexico City, where he became the rage overnight...
Born. To Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...
Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
William Bendix is a likable and sincere actor, but his natural good temper shines fatally through his industrious soot-&-greasepaint toughness. Susan Hayward, as the girl who drives him crazy, is much tougher, too coarsely so for the size of the girl's penthouse or the height of her social standing, but she is more convincing. She is, in fact, Hollywood's ablest bitch-player...