Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...
...Tracy insisted that the company wait for Johnson to get well, rather than reshoot with another actor...
Walter Hampden stopped the show at a Manhattan revival of The Patriots-in order to resist an invasion of paper planes from the moppetous matinee audience. The lean-faced romantic actor, a grandfather, managed ultimately to finish the performance by threatening not to. "After all," he observed, "The Patriots is an adult play...
Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season. Joan and Barbara are not on speaking terms. Joan, her Producer-Husband Walter Wanger and party entered and found Barbara and Actor-Husband Addison Randall. Then Tenor Morton Downey, ex-of Barbara, joined Joan and party. Barbara and husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey...
...production matches the play. Thirty-two-year-old Actress Sullavan, back on Broadway after six years in Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...