Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best actress: Polly Bergen in The Helen Morgan Story...
...award as TV's best actress, Polly Bergen outpolled such veteran rivals as the theater's Helen Hayes and the movies' Teresa Wright, an achievement that could be explained only by the fast-developing herd instinct of telefolk that leads them to stick with their own. Polly's reputation has blossomed principally through coaxial cables. Neither Hollywood nor Broadway was impressed with her efforts as singer or actress, but then she signed up for a series of TV commercials for Pepsi-Cola, quickly became known the nation over as the Pepsi Girl. Here and there...
...actress strolled into a CBS television studio in Manhattan last week, eyed a motley crew of amateur technicians assembled for rehearsal of her daytime serial. "Which one of you," she asked facetiously, "is Mr. Paley?" CBS's Board Chairman William S. Paley was not there to lend a hand with the show, but he might have been. In eight cities across the U.S. where CBS owns TV and radio stations, some 1,300 members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers had walked out, abandoning cameras, microphone booms, control panels and projectors. Quipped a studio...
...after 18 months he had had it. "I felt I had to quit, and do something about the stage." But how to begin? He knew nobody in the theater. He called his favorite actor, John Gielgud, who listened sympathetically and sent him to study with Actress Martita Hunt. After twelve sessions with the drab young man, she sadly shook her head. "You'll never make an actor, Mr. Guinness...
...apartment near Times Square, Bon Vivant Nathan stored a three-year cache of champagne "in case of siege." In and out of print he loved nothing better than a pretty girl-and feared nothing worse than being married to one. In 1955, after a 17-year courtship, he married Actress Julie Haydon and with stoic good cheer settled back for three happy years in what he had called "the amorous electric chair...