Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little mining town in Pennsylvania, and after high school (she could never get in the school play) moved to Florida, where she tried night club dancing. Then she went alone to New York, where she was a flop on TV and tried out for a little group called Actor's Studio. She got parts in two Broadway plays as a result, and Elia Kazan happened by one day and screen-tested...
...accepting the reward, Miss Baker commented in an Actor's Studio Southern drawl, "Ah nevah went to college, but if ah would have had the chance, ah would have chosen Harvard." Actually, Miss Baker left St. Petersburg Jr. College after one term...
Canned laughter rings, too often like hollow mockery, through virtually every filmed comedy show on TV. It is a hoary part of show business, at least as old as Nero who, in his ventures as an actor, packed his houses with as many as 5,000 soldiers under strict orders to appreciate him. The French refined it with the institution of the claque, with such specialists as rieurs* or laughers. In the heyday of U.S. radio, comics often helped a laugh along by kicking the announcer or pummeling the guest star to get studio audiences laughing at what unseeing hearers...
Divorced. Rex Harrison, 48, lean, British-born actor who plays Phoneticist 'Enry 'Iggins in the musicomedy My Fair Lady; by brunette Actress Lilli Palmer, 42, who co-starred with him (1950-51) on Broadway in Bell, Book and Candle; after 14 years of marriage, one son, three days after Harrison took a four-week leave from Lady, journeyed to Hollywood to join his good friend. Cinemactress Kay (Genevieve) Kendall; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
After the fashion of pageants, Christophe Colomb-particularly for those a little deficient in French-had its oratorical longueurs, its narrative doldrums. In Actor Barrault it had a Columbus more gamin than heroic. But Director Barrault proved an accomplished showman, and here and there-as in two wittily etched court scenes-a brilliant one. And with Darius Milhaud's lovely music-now pertly dancelike, now swelling or exalted-Christophe Colomb proved an uneven but curiously memorable occasion...