Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diana Barrymore, actress-daughter of the late, great profile, tripped to Las Vegas, Nev. for a divorce from Actor Bramwell Fletcher. First she had a send-off celebration in Los Angeles. It was almost as gay as the party last winter at which she slapped a man eight times (TIME, Jan. 28). Her escort, a tennis pro named John Howard, slapped Cinemactress Anne Sterling-"just one of those unfortunate things," he said. She had slapped him first, said Howard. Actress Sterling said no-"I'd be awfully silly to hit a big man like John." Tennist Howard and Actress...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...
...eminently caught Shakespeare's spirit in Henry IV, in Uncle Vanya they only fitfully captured Chekhov's tone. The direction seemed fussy in some places, off-center in others; two or three roles were misplayed, and in the title role Ralph Richardson, though always a good actor, seemed miscast...
Married. K. T. Stevens, 25, cinemactress-daughter of Movie Director Sam Wood; and Hugh Marlowe, 35, radio & stage actor; she for the first time, he for the second; in San Francisco...
...Best actor: James Mason (said he: "My thanks and good wishes to all . . . who voted for me. . . . I can't commend their judgment"). Laurence Olivier was fourth, Robert Donat fifth, the late Leslie Howard seventh, David Niven tenth...