Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cameras rolled and Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida, playing in Solomon and Sheba on location in Madrid, recoiled prettily from the evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...
...Adapted from a rather more serious novel (The Homecoming Game), the story concerns an overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
...week it plunged into TV, with superb results. As distinctively package-produced by Henry Jaffe (The Chevy Show, Shirley Temple Storybook), Bell's Adventures in Music, first of four NBC shows this season, tastefully allowed top artists to perform without interruption, even dispensed with an M.C. The cast: Actor Maurice Evans narrating for the uncanny Baird puppets (TIME, Dec. 29), Opera Star Renata Tebaldi (two exciting arias from Madame Butterfly), the piano team of Gold and Fizdale and members of the New York City Ballet. Warmest, most memorable part of the show: Singer Harry Belafonte's spellbinding finale...
Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...great production of The Doctor and the Devils, one that will make the most of its beauties, since not much can be done to minimize its faults. It would be interesting to see what Frederic March or Sir John Gielgud could do with the leading role; any lesser actor would be over-parted. Robert A. Brooks, who takes the part at Kresge, has the proper dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor...