Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is a Force of a different color, an evil one. This Force appears as the mirror image of Edward G. Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor. The third story, by avoiding the obvious and the general in its script, is by far the best of the lot. Charles Boyer, as a tight-rope performer, has a role second only to Betty Field's female Scrooge, and Barbara Stanwyek gives him compotent support. The plot has its intriguing angle...
...life as Bowen Tufts III, in Boston's Back Bay. The family missed the Mayflower ("Reservations too crowded," explains Sonny), but has been in the country since 1638. A great-great-uncle founded Tufts College. When Sonny saw his first play, he piped his desire to be an actor. "It's all right to be an actor," said his broadminded banker father, "if you're a good...
...Southern American Negro" was Frederick Ira Aldridge, the date 1826. Among his Desdemonas: Ellen Tree, whose husband, famed Charles Kean, played Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
Gaunt, 37-year-old Actor Carradine has played in 175 movies (at a top $3,500 a week) without wanting to play in any. His passion is Shakespeare (to understand the peculiar relationship of Othello and Iago, Carradine at first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only...
Radio is nothing but a big medicine show. The announcer is the doctor: he tells you about the product. Then comes the actor, who entertains you and gets...