Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flavor of soap opera. Roberta's father ran an oldtime touring minstrel show ("He was a real raggledaggle show-business type"), and by the time she was in her early teens, she was out of school and in a song and dance act. Finally she married a sometime actor named Don Lanning, settled down with him in Miami, operating a restaurant. When her husband fell ill of cancer in 1953 and lost his bar concession, Roberta found herself with three boys on her hands (now 16, 13 and 8) and no money coming in. While she was being refused...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...
Kaye has returned recently from a world-wide tour he made on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Educational Fund. The actor's more recent film appearances have been in the "Inspector General," "Hans Christian Andersen," "The Court Jester," and "Knock on Wood...
...sequences involved The Actor's Studio and Stanislavski--"who made me the genius I am today. In one word he summarized to me the secret of success in dramatics: suffer." To Kaye, Stanislavski says, "Think before you stink...
...story is worth telling-but hardly the way Ford & Co. tell it. They turn his naval career into a bell-bottom farce, his marriage (to Maureen O'Hara) into a pointlessly unpleasant shore-leave shenanigan, and they simplify the commander's character to the point where even Actor Wayne has to play down to his part...