Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implication that such a law might be valid if the state could show "some overriding statutory purpose." Said Stewart: "I think it is simply not possible for a state law to be valid under our Constitution which makes the criminality of an act depend on the race of the actor." Although the majority stuck to the limits of the specific case before it, it seems likely that Stewart's views will be the court's when it finally faces up to the constitutionality of laws affecting interracial marriage...
Divorced. By Dorothy Malone, 39, $3,000-a-week star of Peyton Place, TV's serialized sexpose of small-town life: Jacques Bergerac, 38, French lawyer-actor previously married to Ginger Rogers; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
Died. Percy Kilbride, 76, Hollywood's "Pa Kettle," a skilled Broadway character actor who won hayseedy fame as the first of the Beverly hillbillies, got so bored with lucrative Kettle-boilers (seven in all) that he refused to make any more; of injuries suffered when a car struck him three months ago; in Los Angeles...
...dirty word. The ruckus started when Bertrand Russell's "Peace Foundation" announced that Burton was giving it all his British earnings. Not so, cried Richard. He had merely donated a few pounds and did not agree with Lord Bertie's anti-American jeremiads. In fact, deadpanned the actor, he gives most of his loose pence to the Invalid Tricycle Foundation of Wales (for crippled miners). Wife Liz had a different challenge. For a Lido opening in Paris, the invitations specified evening pajamas, and half the haut monde came in lace or sequined trousers. Not Liz. "I.wear slacks...
...time is September 1942. The place is a detention room in Vichy, France, where Jews are being rounded up for identity checks and circumcision examinations. As they learn but can scarcely credit, they are destined for the crematory furnaces. Miller assembles a doctor, an actor, a painter, an electrician and others, all representative enough to express the playwright's viewpoints, and none real enough to leave the impress of their own specific personalities...