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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anastasia, Actress Bergman is a princess in distress. Nobody believes she is who she says she is, and even she herself, benumbed by the horrors of the revolution and her escape, is inclined to doubt her identity. The doubt is soon complicated by the fact that she is induced to impersonate herself by the wicked General Bounine, a White Russian adventurer who would like to lay hands on the "Czar's fortune" deposited in the Bank of England. The spectator is thus caught in a dramatic paradox (virtue can triumph only if vice does) that keeps his mind engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits Actress Anita Ekberg, Whimsyist Ludwig Bemelmans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Irish actress Siobhan McKenna will read from the works of modern Irish poets in an appearance at Sanders Theatre Sunday, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irish Stage Star To Appear Here | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

...World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler named Eric van Aro, now lives in West Germany as a popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into a kind of modified Moorish that can develop into a frightening, savage howl or sink into a sweet whisper. Last week she occasionally accompanied herself expertly on a guitar, playing some poignant harmonies that freshened the overfamiliar Latin tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Singers | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Died. Paul Kelly. 57, longtime (since 1907) Broadway actor, who played opposite Helen Hayes in Penrod (1918). turned to Hollywood in 1926, was convicted of manslaughter (1927) after Actor Ray Raymond died when Kelly slugged him during a quarrel over Raymond's wife, Actress Dorothy Mackaye. Kelly married Actress Mackaye in 1931 (she died after a car crash in 1940) after serving 25 months in San Quentin, later returned to Broadway, won the Donaldson and Perry awards for Command Decision (1947-48), starred in The Country Girl (1950-51); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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