Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such undeflectable purpose, such one-track-mindlessness can have its acting limitations; and Actress McKenna plays with no great range and with a kind of fierce monotony. But by subordinating effect to essence, what Joan does to what Joan is, she makes an audience feel itself in close contact with someone, however rare, who is in close communication with something, however intangible...
...church, the sovereign self and the sovereign institution, inner light and outer law. is magnificently projected. But Shaw did not solve his problem of making Joan personally real by making her slangily realistic and outwardly much like other people. Her reality lay in how she differed from them; and Actress McKenna, by eschewing something three-dimensional yet vaguely radiant for something one-dimensional but truly intense, comes much closer to revealing...
Born. To Jean Simmons, 27. hazel-eyed British-born film actress (Guys and Dolls), and tall, wavy-maned Stewart Granger, 43 (real name: James Stewart), British-born cinemactor (Bhowani Junction): their first child (his third), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracy (for Actor Spencer Tracy). Weight...
...than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers-a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with plenty to cushion her fall. Pretty soon a storm comes up, and he plane goes down in a jungle inhabited by headhunters. Everybody is terribly worried, of course, as well they may be. Perhaps they remember the 1939 version of this movie called Five Came Back. Since there...
Nowadays Shimoda stages an annual "Carnival of the Black Ships" celebrating the U.S. opening of Japan to the West, and an actress assumes the honored role of Okichi. But, says Author Yamata, U.S. ambassadors do not stay to acknowledge that portion of the ceremony...