Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miller, "so I told him to make 'a record." "I can't sing," said Hunter. "I don't care," Miller assured him. "You can sneeze and it'll sell." When they got ashore, Miller called Dot Records and set up a recording contract for the actor. Hunter cut a disk called Young Love (TIME, March 25), and Miller started playing it before release. Crows the jockey: "In Chicago alone, it sold 250,000 in the first three weeks. Now, nationally...
...limited range, the outstanding member of the supporting casts is Lee Jeffries, who slinks about the stage in a tight gold dress as a wonderfully seductive Venus. In the role of Orpheus, Harvey White demonstrates the triple talents of violinist (good enough for light opera), singer (the same) and actor (a little too strained for comedy). Anne Wallace, as Diana, has a strong voice but it is difficult to understand her. And James Greene, who plays Styx, demonstrates a somewhat limited acting ability but nevertheless distinguished himself through his pleasant voice...
Eric Martin as the "fleshy poet," "with a love for admiration," originally modelled after lilytoting Oscar Wilde--handles his focal part with humour and almost no difficulties, although he did not project as well as might be desired. John Bernard as the "idyllic poet," is absolutely perfect as actor and singer, as he transfers from Renaissance Apollo to a "common, ordinary fellow...
Most of the people who will jam the Brattle for the next two weeks have seen Casablanca at least once, and will see it once again not because they remember the complex plot of intrigue and love and compromised virtue, but because each actor made his character indelible...
...matters involving courage, honesty and humor, the late Hilaire Belloc was the best judge of British character that France ever produced. But in most other aspects of life, he was one of the worst. In this authorized biography, Author-Actor Robert Speaight. an Anglo-Catholic, presents Belloc in all the fullness of flesh and mind...