Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insulted mermaid, that disdainful glide, as of a sneering sleepwalker, might very well be addressed to her material. Even when shackled by it, she manages at moments to shake herself magically free; the grande dame lurches, the veiled maiden loops, culture splinters into anarchy. There are scattered glories with Actress Lillie as an airplane hostess croaking doom, or as a rajah's favorite, or as the girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into...
Until last week Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in striking closeup, breathed her special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with...
...Lark was seen by some 26 million viewers, roughly 125 times the number who saw Actress Harris' 208 Broadway performances, and probably many more than have seen all the Joans (including Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Ingrid Bergman. Uta Hagen. Siobhan McKenna) of the American stage combined...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare." adapted by Drama Critic Walter Kerr, narrated by Boris Karloff; Cleveland Amory looks at U.S. society from 1900-14; French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault and his actress-wife Madeleine Renaud in a series of sketches...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18--Playwright Arthur Miller, 41, was indicted on contempt of Congress charges today for refusing to identify fellow writers with whom he attended Communist party meetings in 1947. Miller is married to actress Marilyn Monroe...