Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Jay Gould III, 26, wartime AAFlyer, great-grandson of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould, also a flyer in his day and way, and Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Actor Nigel Bruce: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Bruce...
...Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, Inc., among whose labor statesmen are numbered Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, Actor Fredric March and Playwright Moss Hart, got into the fray with $1,840 worth of newspaper ads. They urged Americans to contribute to the strikers at General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel or "any other struck corporation." (Presumably each strike's issues and merits were beside the point...
Most of O Mistress Mine is about as real-and as valuable-as stage money, but it has a lot of actable scenes am passably agile dialogue. And Playwright Rattigan plainly wrote it for escape. Saic Actor Lunt on opening night, in one o his rare curtain speeches: "If in thi angry, suspicious world we have brough. you an hour or two of laughter, I am very grateful...
Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing...
...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...