Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gable was then a novice leading man, only four years removed from the career of bumming, lumberjacking and cheap stock company acting that had preceded his debut on Broadway in Machinal. Carole Lombard was an ex-Mack Sennett comedienne trying hard to make a reputation as a serious actress. Both were married. Gable's wife was a well-to-do Texas widow ten years his senior, whom he had married the year before, after divorcing a dramatic coach. Lombard's husband was Actor William Powell. At this first meeting, neither Gable nor Lombard showed any interest...
...other Biddle-dee-dee, the nearest The Philadelphia Story comes to tragedy is the paralytic stroke suffered by the plot at the end of the second act. Though not up to Barry's best trifling, the play provides an entertaining evening, thanks to gay, lively dialogue and Actress Hepburn's amazing aptness for her role...
...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...
...dislikes to which Actress Cornell owns up is a dislike for the star system. It delighted her to exchange "Katharine Cornell in-" for "Katharine Cornell Presents." All the same, after Katharine Cornell came brilliantly of age, at the end of 1924, with Candida, she reveled in mediocre plays (The Green Hat, The Age of Innocence, Dishonored Lady) with fat, showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written...
...WANTED TO BE AN ACTRESS-the Autobiography of Katharine Cornell as told to Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick-Random House...