Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Eugene (Gene) Lockhart, 64, versatile character actor of stage (The Handy Man, Death of a Salesman) and screen (Algiers, Going My Way), father of Actress June Lockhart (For Love or Money); of a coronary thrombosis; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...after the last curtain, downed sedatives, and slept soundly until her phone rang at 6 a.m. with the news of her second Oscar. (Her first: in 1944, for the role of Mrs. Anton in Gaslight.) His shaved head glistening like a polished cue ball, Yul Brynner won the best actor award for his autocratic king in Rodgers and Hammerstein's successful cinemusical, The King and I (which took four other Oscars for its technical skill...
Supporting actor: Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life...
...wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target. He cannot seem to distinguish between beau and Darrow...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...