Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Anna Moffo, 39, veteran soprano of New York's Metropolitan Opera and occasional nonsinging movie actress; and Robert W. Sarnoff, 56, board chairman and chief executive officer of RCA; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
Rose's fear is enough to strike dread into the Bellamys, who know their patrician comfort depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
Marsh is in fact responsible for some far-reaching social commotion. Upstairs, Downstairs, the show she created with Actress Eileen Atkins, is in its fourth season on English TV and its second on PBS. It now has 50 million fans round the world. A Broadway musical is planned. CBS has bought the show's U.S. rights, and plans to transpose the location to a 1920s Boston family's Beacon Hill house with a black male "Mr. Bridges" at the range...
...discovered they both had parents who had been "in service." They were sick of seeing servants portrayed as scene transitions: "You know, 'here's your hat, sir,' or having their bottoms pinched." Neither woman did anything to rectify the situation until a year later, when an actress boasted to Jean that she had landed a plum part. "I was furiously jealous," says Jean, who immediately called a producer friend. "What do I do with an idea for a TV series?" she asked. "You bring it to me," was his reply...
...Neither actress wanted a role within the Bellamy family. Eileen wanted to play Sarah to Jean's Rose, but stage commitments got in the way. Jean admits to a little jealousy of the fame won by Sarah (Pauline Collins) in England, but Rose's enigmatic quality was more successful in America. Says Jean: "She wants more but doesn't know what...