Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never can tell...
First on the bill, but in reality the second feature, is "Intermezzo, A Love Story." Plot and dialogue form one grand summary of all the trite situations and lines in movie love. However, it introduces a Swedish girl named Ingrid Bergman who has all the earmarks of a good actress,--even down to the Swedish accent...
...Adventures hour Lee and Dannay write a $350 mystery a week. Ellery, represented as a William Powell-style detective by a radiogenic actor named Hugh Marlowe, with a photogenic actress named Marion Shockley as his secretary, Nikki, leads the way through such adventures as those of the Gum-Chewing Millionaire, Napoleon's Razor, George Spelvin's Murderer, The Three...
...Bullet Has Went." The poetical effusions of the late John V. A. Weaver, husband of Actress Peggy Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...
...Buffalo in what she terms one of the "Harvard periods" of that city, Miss Cornell made her theatrical debut with the Washington Square Players in 1917. Since that time she has acted in many Shakespearean and modern plays, becoming one of the most accomplished and renowned stage actress of the present...