Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London as a correspondent. While abroad, he did much of the reporting for cover stories on Thornton Wilder, Joyce Gary, Claire Bloom and Audrey Hepburn. Since his return in January 1954, Baker has not only written twelve other cover stories but also edited those on King Hussein of Jordan, Actor Rex Harrison, Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty and Singer Maria Callas...
...movie studio. "She was fragile," he wrote later, "and looked as though she must have tasted the bitterness of life. I held her in high esteem, and never for a single moment cherished an impure thought toward her." But soon after their meeting, much to the shy young actor's surprise, Hung called him on the telephone. "She poured out her heart to me," he wrote. "She told me how much she cared, that her longing could no longer be concealed." In his diffident way. Huang tried to suppress the singer's ardor, but "she said she knew...
...What Hung was doing turned out to be exactly what her husband's Communist bosses wanted her to do, and as Huang spent more and more time in the company of his new love, he saw less and less of his old friends. Hung gradually persuaded the hypnotized actor to desert his family, his career and his principles. "I decided to throw in my whole lot for her sake alone," he wrote. "I wanted to share everything, good or bad, with her. I sold myself unconditionally and promised to do whatever she wanted...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). So Soon to Die, with Richard Basehart as an unemployed actor hired to murder wealthy Anne Bancroft...
...point there can be no equivocation. The acting and direction which this production displays is in every way superb, and very likely is the best work to come along this season. Each of the members of the all-Negro cast is an actor of unsurpassed stature. I am not in a position to compare Mantan Moreland with Bert Lahr, who played Estragon in the original American production, but it is difficult to imagine any performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount...