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Married. Rex Harrison (real name: Reginald Carey Harrison), 49, British-born actor of stage (My Fair Lady) and screen (Anna and the King of Slam); and Kay Kendall (real name: Kay Justine Kendall McCarthy), 31, British cinemactress (Genevieve); he for the third time (his second: Actress Lilli Palmer), she for the first; in Manhattan...
...most obvious mistake in Preminger's Joan is Preminger's Joan-a charming, shrinking young girl named Jean Seberg, aged 18, whom the director "discovered," according to the picture's panting publicity, in the vicinity of Marshalltown, Iowa. Actress Seberg, with the advantage of youth, the disadvantage of inexperience, is drastically miscast. Shaw's Joan is a chunk of hard brown bread, dipped in the red wine of battle and devoured by ravenous angels. Actress Seberg, by physique and disposition, is the sort of honey bun that drugstore desperadoes like to nibble with their milk shakes...
With sennets and flourishes, Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...
...Ironically, the portraits seemed to fall out of television focus when wisps of Odets ideas slipped in. Actor E. G. Marshall was brilliant as the cuckolded husband who yearned for ''a little warm house in the snow where you were told what to do, like in school." Actress Kim Stanley, in another excellent performance, was the adulterous wife who talked about the supreme confidence of her first husband, a Pennsylvania politician, who "fights the blizzards and the floods for you, beats the world off when it rises to swallow you up." To her cheap lover, Lloyd Bridges...
Helen Hayes, actress. . D.F.A...