Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond bringing a rather promising playwright to Broadway, Two for the Seesaw brings a remarkably appealing actress. TV's Anne Bancroft has an urgently personal quality and unmistakable comic gifts. Allotted a distinctive lingo and some catchy lines, she wonderfully brightens her early scenes with a blend of Bohemian bluntness and Bronx cheer. But she can manage emotion too, and inner perception, and suffering she wants to conceal. In a far weaker part-being virtually a straight man in comedy scenes, and a rather literary talker in serious ones-Actor Fonda can only, very often, be adroitly dull...
Like Gittel Mosca, the girl she plays in Two for the Seesaw, Actress Anne Bancroft speaks pure Bronxese with expansive gestures to match. Like Gittel, she likes bulky sweaters, long black stockings and flat shoes. With this background, she needed just one reading to win the part from Producer Fred Coe. Says Director Arthur Penn: "She didn't even read for me-I was sold on sight. She is Gittel...
Festooned with paper streamers that almost gave the scene an air of capitalist merriment, Poland's billiard-bald Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and his pearl-neck-laced Actress-Wife Nina danced without much abandon. Their restrained revelry did little to heat up a state ball on the first night of this year's Warsaw Carnival...
Divorced. By Faye Emerson, 40, blonde actress of stage, screen and TV (I've Got a Secret): her third husband (others: William Wallace Crawford Jr., Elliott Roosevelt), Bandleader Lyle ("Skitch") Henderson, 39; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Mexico City...
Died. Margaret Anglin, 81, sad-eyed, Junoesque tragedienne, one of the greats of the American stage; in Toronto. Born in the Canadian House of Parliament (where her father, as Speaker of the House of Commons, had quarters), Actress Anglin began in a bit part on Broadway, achieved fame overnight in 1898 as Roxanne in Richard Mansfield's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, made her greatest popular success (in 1906) in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide...