Word: actress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chris Evert, Wimbledon was more like Waterloo. First she was upset in the semifinals by Billie Jean King. Then ex-Boy Friend Jimmy Connors brought Actress Susan George on his arm to watch his own upset in the men's singles (see SPORT). Said Chris: "He is no longer my fiancé, and all thoughts about marriage have been shelved." All of which helped Billie Jean look like the coolest competitor around. She acquired a striking outfit that she threatened to wear (but did not) to the Wimbledon ball: Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp costume. Then, having proclaimed...
...Robert Shaw, 48, had a cooler opinion of the project. "Jaws was not a novel," he says. "It was a story written by a committee, a piece of shit." He was not inclined to take the part until his late wife, Actress Mary Ure, and his secretary both had a long look at the script and urged him on. "The last time they were that enthusiastic was From Russia With Love," recalls Shaw, who played the slow-thinking, fast-moving hit man in that Bond epic. "And they were right then. So I took the part...
Bette Davis, D.F.A., actress. Her histrionic versatility is such that as an actress, in roles sometimes sophisticated or fiery, sometimes naive or demure, her technical achievement cannot be categorized...
...true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author...
...Hepburn stood back nobly," begins the chronicle, "not asking to see the book in manuscript or proof . . . not even calling me to see how I was progressing." Hepburn's celebrated diffidence was never more wisely employed. Higham's hushed approach, his claim that "she is the greatest actress of our time . . . because her honesty demands she must suffer nakedly in front of our eyes" is incense, not biography...