Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into this office had come such notables as Actor Raymond Massey, Financier and ex-Diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy and his Senator son John, and choleric Columnist Westbrook Pegler. When Sir Anthony Eden visited the clinic for surgery last year, it was Dr. Jordan who did the vital diagnostic work on which the surgeons' lifesaving decision was based...
Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...
...Norma Talmadge nickered through three reels of heroism and anguish. The best of times arrived in 1935, when the late Ronald Colman came through with a portrayal of the novel's hero that had dash and dignity as well as the usual desuetude. In this latest attempt, British Actor Dirk Bogarde* gives it a game go, but he never quite fights his way out of a paper Carton...
...offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...
...Ginnes and Mr. Wallach have little in the way of taste or style, but, providentially enough, they have got Tom Poston to play the bibulating barrister. The idea of watching an actor stumbling and mumbling for nearly two hours is not an intrinsically attractive one, but Mr. Poston bears up beautifully under his incredibly heavy load. His sober scenes are mediocre, but as soon as he is suitably fueled he takes off like a rocket. He delivers quick wisecracks and long monologues with conviction and beautiful timing, but nothing he says is funnier than his silent, abstracted attempt...