Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only did Hamlet become the first foreign movie ever to capture the big prize, but its title-role performance by Sir Laurence Olivier was judged the best by an actor in 1948. Olivier's Hamlet also cinched the distinction of being the year's most laureled picture by winning three other Oscars: black & white art direction, set decoration and costume design. Another Rank film, The Red Shoes, took three more technical honors, for its sets and art direction in color, and musical score...
Stand Together. Dean Acheson continued his lecture in a radio speech which was cleared with Harry Truman and delivered with a Shakespearian actor's measured resonance. The U.N., he said, is "not working as effectively as we hoped because one of its members has attempted to prevent it from working...
...taste." but thinks that a stronger staff will show there are at least 100,000 of them instead of the 50,000 who now buy the magazine. Says he: "I'm very happy to be back. It's like an opening-as if I were an actor, which of course I am. Last night at the Colony Restaurant, George Jean Nathan got up and welcomed me home...
Impresario Carlos Montalban, a lean, mustachioed Mexican actor-promoter (and older brother of Cinemactor Ricardo Montalban), pays his big names upwards of $10,000 a week, plus their fares from Latin America. Regardless of how much stage blood is spattered around, he woos the family trade by keeping the shows clean. (Backstage, four large signs remind the performers that the audience is "very respectable and religious...
SCAP officials beamed in approval and Actor Kawarasaki followed this triumph with Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Both were popular successes and financial flops. What with high taxes and high admission prices, complained Kawarasaki, "we still have to put on plays which, flatter the people who come...