Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their defense and were acquitted-but the judge refused to award them the costs of their defense. Similarly, last week American Actor Horace Marshall, who played God in the BBC-TV production of Green Pastures, was acquitted of living off the earnings of a prostitute, but though the London magistrate dismissed the case before Marshall even finished testifying, he refused to award him ?300 in court costs on the ground that the police...
...complaisance, there are those who still keep a wary eye on the lazing erstwhile king. "Sure." said Broadway-TV Actor Horace (Naked City) MacMahon, "you're always hearing people say, 'Well, Winchell can't fight any more.' Maybe so, but it's like old Sugar Ray Robinson-you know anybody wants to fight...
...farm to take care of Susan's seven-year-old son (Dennis Holmes). But the boy, who thinks that Boyd has killed his mother, tries to take care of him first. He lures the man to a convenient quagmire, all set to snicker as he sinks, but Actor Boyd keeps his chin up. Meanwhile, back at the village, Susan is realizing how wrong she has been about her husband. All those horrible things he did to her were not really horrible at all, the script says, because the poor fellow had an unhappy childhood. Tortured with remorse, Susan turns...
Parental Clay. In the France of 1908 -such a well-tended garden that it was almost a crime for a child to pick a flower -the De Beauvoirs tried to maintain rather than seek status. A soso lawyer. Papa was worldly, intelligent and a gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...
...Demos admittedly does not try to convert in his philosophy class. His self-described role is that of the actor, speaking for the various philosophers. For the instructor, the role of the believer yields to that of the impartial spokesman expounding the bits of wisdom and insight which each philosopher offers. The values of teaching many philosophical claims to truth thus take precedence over the teaching of the professor's own convictions...