Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text of the two-act play was adapted by Jerome Kilty '49 from the four decades of correspondence between Shaw and Mrs. Campbell, the celebrated British actress (nee Beatrice Stella Tanner). Many of their letters were published five years ago, but much of the material for this play has never been published, having been presented to Kilty by a friend who smuggled it out of France in 1940 at the behest of Mrs. Campbell, who was then on her deathbed and wanted the letters preserved...
...tiger rug with a still camera staring down her bodice. One of the first rites was to change her name. Cohn liked the name Kit Marlowe. She insisted on keeping Novak. But the name Marilyn had to go because it suggested another blonde. For two days the new actress was named Kit Novak until she tearfully went to Publicity Director George Lait to plead for a change to Kim.* Remembers Lait: "Honey, 1 said, I had one helluva time to even get Cohn to keep Novak. You go to see him." Kim went, and charmed the great man into acquiescence...
...down/' Under the goad of this fear, Kim ran herself so ragged while making Jeanne Eagels, and simultaneously preparing for the recently completed Pal Joey, that she landed in the hospital with exhaustion. Says a friend: "Harry Cohn thinks he can make Kim an actress. But it's a terrible strain on Kim. She knows she isn't an actress, but she's ambitious. She cracks up under the pressure...
...Marilyn grew up, she felt herself-in the shadow of her favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...Miss Deepfreeze" in a countrywide promotional tour with three other girls for Thor appliances. "I jumped at it," says Kim. When the tour ended in San Francisco, she headed for Hollywood. Several months later, the baron received a farewell note in verse (the only sample of her verse that Actress Novak will quote...