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Word: actor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critic Janet Kern, "that he has come to be a 'friend' whose weekly visits the whole family eagerly anticipates." Along with this charm, he combines the universal erudition of a Renaissance man with the nerve and cunning of a riverboat gambler and the showmanship of the born actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...headed by a famous acting couple-Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault-paid their first visit to Broadway. Offering chefs d'oeuvres variés-Shakespeare, Marivaux, Molière-as well as novelties and knickknacks, they particularly scored with their lighter, wittier, most Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns (Salacrou, Giraudoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Westward Ho | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow visits Actor Kirk Douglas, Singer Roberta Sherwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Died. William Eythe. 38, cinemactor (The House on 92nd Street) and Broadway actor-producer (Lend an Ear); of acute hepatitis; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...story and just as susceptible to imitation--often by the same people. The late Sidney Greenstreet played Caspar Gutman ever after, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade spits out to the girl he loves as he turns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Maltese Falcon | 1/23/1957 | See Source »

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