Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood Howl. When the complaint reached the U.S. last week, the indignant stars set up a howl of their own. Actress Goddard insisted that she had "played all but three days when I was ordered to bed by the Army physician." Comedian Brown, who has an outstanding record of devotion to soldier entertainment and whose soldier son was killed in a plane crash, angrily retorted that he "did all a 53-year-old man could do." The Hollywood Victory Committee blamed broken promises on Army snags, added that Ann Sheridan and Joel McCrea had both been , held up by lack...
...Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
Music in Manhattan (RKO-Radio) offers mild pleasure despite the barrenness of its musicomic clichés. Some of them: Ace Philip Terry finds aspiring Actress Anne Shirley asleep in his hotel bed; housing-shortage forces them to pretend they are married; Miss Shirley soars to success as a Broadway musicomedienne, whisks through five production numbers, decides she loves her ersatz husband for keeps...
Born. To Elissa Landi, 39, novel-writing stage and screen actress; and Curtis Kinney Thomas, 38, author; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Caroline Maude Landi Thomas. Weight...
Maria Montez is rapidly becoming Hollywood's most proficient actress in this type of art. She plays at being a siren with the delight of a little girl playing house. So boundless is her joy in her work that even a cinecynic can hardly help catching some...