Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...Steel Hour: Actor-Author Robert Emmett's You Can't Win lost its silly head completely but managed to keep its heart in the right place and a tickly hand on the viewer's funnybone. As he dum-tada-ta-ed the habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most...
...George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with the story's gusts of emotion as lightly as a weathercock in the wind...
...last two years Actor Tony Perkins, 25, has become one of the most valued and versatile properties in show business. His tautly drawn acting and shy manner have won over both critics and bobby soxers. Like Gene Gant, Tony seems to be watching his development with a sort of awe. "Why has it all happened to me?" he asks. "I'm not good-looking, or experienced, or what you'd call a 'build...
Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying...