Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denounced "the self-styled student of our leader"-a reference to the fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow-a onetime movie actress-with having been a prostitute in Shanghai in the 1930s...
...what is more overtly a delightfully humorous and energetic play. Eva Le Gallienne, tritely but rightly called "one of the truly great ladies of the American theater," plays Fanny Cavendish, the aged grande dame of the family and of the stage, apparently modeled after Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress and manager of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater at the end of the last century, and grandmother of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental...
...what holds the family together and keeps them going. In spite of the pain and loneliness, it is the one thing of real value. When Julie announces that she is leaving the stage forever, in order to "have some fun," Oscar reminds her that as the greatest actress in the theater she has had more "fun" than anyone. For her, as it will always be for her mother even when she is no longer able to act, complete joy and fulfilment can be found only in the theater, in doing what they do best...
...attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness...
Died. Dame Edith Evans, 88, legendary British actress; in Goudhurst, England. Evans' repertory ranged from Shakespearean tragedy to modern comedy; she created several roles for George Bernard Shaw, who wrote The Millionairess especially for her. Dame Edith made her film debut at the age of 60 in a 1948 version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Her other films included Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel...