Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing Hooky. Elaine, born in Philadelphia, is the daughter of Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin. She began by playing little boys in Yiddish plays, later quit high school in Los Angeles and studied acting with the late Maria Ouspenskaya. To eat, she picked up such odd jobs as private detective, spieler for a sidewalk photographer. Then she heard "you could go to the University of Chicago without going to high school...
Onstage at Manhattan's Cort Theater, greying, broad-jawed Actor Ralph Bellamy, 53, brilliantly plays the strong-minded young Politician Franklin D. Roosevelt in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Offstage, for the past six years Actor Bellamy has performed an even tougher role: two-term president of the 10,000-member Actors' Equity, A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Last week, after some 200 petitions flowed into Equity's Manhattan office urging him to run again, Bellamy changed his mind, agreed to go for a third term. In deference, the only other announced candidate, Negro Actor Frederick O'Neal, bowed out of the race...
...Chicago-born Actor Bellamy, a veteran of 36 years on stage, screen and television, still has problems to face. Among the leftover projects from his first terms: congressional approval of a tax spread for actors so that fat onetime earnings can be extended to cover lean years; federation with allied theatrical unions...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness) -a magnificent story of war (TIME...