Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figurations. The music seemed to course through the long, flexible arc of his brown body like water through a garden hose; occasionally a soft cry broke through his half-open lips. Thus 6 ft.-6 in. Geoffrey Holder-at 26 a solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera, successful painter, actor, singer and choreographer-last week made his debut as director-star of his own calypso show, and introduced slightly dazed Brooklyn audiences to his sinewy, fiercely virile dance style...
...staging shows best in small touches. As long as the title role keeps to a bright musicomedy level, with the Regent preening himself, or riding a rocking-horse, or struggling with his stays, Walter Slezak's Regent has all Walter Slezak's mischievous charm. But, for all Actor Slezak's avoirdupois, the characterization lacks body because of the writing. With its famous characters and historic occasions, the play is fun enough to look at, but wearisome to listen...
Three generations later Cromwell's head belonged to the soldier's granddaughter's husband-a second-rate actor named Samuel Russell, who sold it to a jeweler, who sold it (for ?230) to a syndicate, for public exhibition. In the early igih century Josiah Henry Wilkinson picked it up at the bargain price of ?100. It eventually came down through the family to the canon, who kept it at the foot of his bed, in a box on which his cat used to sleep, and showed the relic off to visitors as an effective conversation piece...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Pans with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...