Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hips, Neck & Knees. In Germany such celebrities as Max Schmeling and his ex-movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling...
What The Folding Green lacks in wit it does not make up in cogency. In the middle of the middle act, a white-wigged actress comes before the curtain to say that the author told her to say that reality and illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss...
That Miss Schell won the Cannes Best Actress award is not surprising; she is a highly accomplished actress and, not incidentally, beautiful. But she is somewhat disappointing. As the blinky-eyed ads would imply, she has a bad knack for simpering; she simpers very well, but too much. Her face is wonderfully mobile, but the fine differences of its expressions are limited. She does not stand out over all else in the film, but she does posses a dramatic urgency and an understanding of the excruciating moral dilemma which makes The Last Bridge as profound and important a film...
...drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood-swept houses, trees, telephone poles, cows, chickens, and a mob trying to beat him to death. His head bloodied, utterly bushed, Strong Man Hayden finally dropped Actress Page while lugging her through the flood, dislocating her back. ¶ Broadcasting from Hollywood-for the first time since he left movieland, unwanted and disgusted, five years ago-Tonight's Jack Paar was conquering the West Coast with some of the most wildly funny shows of his career. Paar...
Light Enough, Back to Methuselah), reasoning that "you don't always do everything for loot, do you?" His marriages were as varied as his screen credits. No. 1: French Actress Annabella (Suzanne Charpentier). No. 2: Mexican-born Cinemango Linda Christian, who charged Power $1,000,000 for his freedom in 1955. No. 3: Deborah Moatgomery Minardos, 26, of Mississippi, who expects their child in February...