Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus. Nimble performances: Elisabeth Bergner (The Two Mrs. Carrolls), Margaret Sullavan (The Voice of the Turtle), Mary Philips in Chicken Every Sunday. Actresses, in a sense, had other fish to fry. Five of them turned playwright; one, Ruth...
...four sisters of that name in Glenby Falls, N.Y. They want to help their widowed father buy a farm where he can indulge his passion for raising soybeans. Nancy Angel (Dorothy Lamour) wants to be an artist, Bobby (Betty Hutton) an ace reporter, Patti (Mimi Chandler) a Shakespearean actress, Josie (Diana Lynn) a composer. Between daydreams and quarrels they pick up spare cash by staging musical acts at a local roadhouse. There they run afoul of a transient bandleader, Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray), who promptly advises Cinemactress Lamour: "Let's not fight this thing, it's bigger than...
...playing love scenes Ingrid Bergman has no contemporary equal. She appears not only to know the emotion and how to make it come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
...hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...