Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals. To Bombay newsmen Rossellini explained: "It's just a business relationship." Asked in Paris about the Bombay situation, Ingrid Bergman Rossellini, a superb actress, laughed convincingly, then said: "Tell people I laughed. Tell them not to pay any attention to that story...
Divorced. Jack Randolph Webb, 37, creator, director and star (as wooden-faced Sergeant Joe Friday) of radio and TV's Dragnet (TIME, March 15, 1954); by his second wife, Dorothy Towne, 27, blonde sometime actress; after two years of marriage (including three separations), no children; in Hollywood...
Based on William Marchant's 1955 Broadway comedy about the milder terrors of technological unemployment, Desk Set has been expanded by a sizable pigeonhole, in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy intermittently bill and coo. Actress Hepburn is the head researcher for a TV network, the kind of girl who always knows the score but seldom seems to make one-especially with Gig Young, a rising young executive who can't seem to remember he is supposed to be falling for Katie. But then along comes Tracy, a "methods engineer" who seems determined to fire the heroine...
...snapping that she "hates gossip," Elsa bade arivederci to all and steamed up to Milan. There she fell into the trem ulous arms of volcanic Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas, last year's enemy, this year's bosom pal. Of Maria: "A fascinating creature . . . the greatest singing actress of our time...
With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint...