Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copped the "Father of the Year" title awarded by the National Father's Day Committee, which also chose: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, father of one, as "outstanding father of the war," and made low, respectful bows to Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, sportscaster, father of one; Fredric March, actor, father of two; Jack Benny, comedian, father of one; and Bing Crosby, father of four...
Frank Fay, oldtime vaudevillian whose wistful-mellow portrait of a drunk with an imaginary rabbit (Harvey) enchants Broadway audiences, was the best actor of the 1944-45 theatrical season, according to Variety's annual critics' poll. Best actress: Oldtimer Laurette (Peg O' My Heart) Taylor in The Glass Menagerie...
Besides being a brilliant comic entertainer, Kaye has considerable talent as a straight actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
Robert & Gaby. Fauré's prize student came from the most musical household in all Paris. Rue Rochechouart rang day & night with the exuberant music played by four uncles, a dozen aunts, a score of first cousins. Father, an actor, composed operettas; grandfather, an amateur fiddler, zealously watched the musical growth of each member of the clan...
...Grub Street Hack. Elizabeth was a heroine, but not for long. In Grub Street a hack named Dr. John Hill, who combined the practice of medicine with the writing of plays and a column in the London Daily Advertiser ("His farces are Physic, his Physic a Farce is," said Actor David Garrick), went and talked with Virtue Hall. Under pressure she admitted that her evidence at the Old Bailey had been false from beginning to end. In the penny press, the taverns and gaming houses, the case was reopened. Londoners divided themselves into Canningites and Egyptians...