Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chilled generations of movie audiences with her steely portrayal of Mrs. Danvers in the classic film Rebecca. But all the while, really, Dame Judith Anderson, 76, one of the most durable tragic actresses of the century, has also had a yen to play for laughs. At last her vehicle has come in. On Oct. 23 she will appear in a television production of Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, playing the part of She, a famous, witty, 70-year-old actress on the verge of retirement. Having taken a crack at the title role in Hamlet...
...Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved for his marvelously bourgeois relationship with Actress Katherina Schratt, a love that lasted until he died. The Emperor regularly nipped down to Katherina's house for coffee after early morning Mass. Delighted Viennese fiacre drivers called him "Herr Schratt...
Angie Dickinson, as Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson on NBC'S Police Woman (Friday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), is at least permitted to be just not-so-plain Angie, and any program that allows this attractive, good-humored actress to be her familiar self cannot be all bad. The regular supporting cast, headed by Earl Holliman, is competent, and the action sequences are crisp. There is also some attempt to put the cops in contact with interesting criminals and characterized victims...
...former Roman Catholic bishop, an army general, a union leader, several politicians, lawyers, entertainers, university professors and journalists. The threats have already caused a mini-diaspora. University Rectors Rodolfo Puiggrós and Raul Laguzzi have taken asylum in Mexico. Folk Singer Horacio Guarany fled to Venezuela last week. Actress Nacha Guevara left for Peru as did Comedian Norman Briski. Although it has not been directly linked to the A.A.A., the murder of General Prats has put Argentina's large community of political exiles on notice that the country is no longer a safe refuge...
...Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts outside Washington, D.C., Daughter marks Sills' first appearance on TV in a complete opera. It is also a highly amusing adornment of Sills' lengthy repertory of damned dames and loony ladies. It further affirms her reputation as a singing actress without peer in all of opera today -be it deep tragedy, high comedy or that vast operatic ground in between...