Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production matches the play. Thirty-two-year-old Actress Sullavan, back on Broadway after six years in Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...
...expert piece of sentiment called Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a young English actress, who looked rather like a goddess sculptured in butterscotch, made her brief screen debut, and without fair warning even to herself, stole the film. Though nobody clearly realized it at the time (four years ago), she also started something new in screen history...
...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...scholarships and with honors), Greer played in amateur theatricals. Her college yearbook thumbnailed her as "a unique blend of La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Goldilocks and the Three Bears." This unique blend returned from a year's study at Grenoble with a passionate desire to become an actress. Cried her Presbyterian grandmother: "No granddaughter of mine will ever lift her legs upon a stage." So Greer set up and operated a market research library for a London advertising firm, soon rated a respectable ?10 a week...
...back to Commerce. But one night, while Greer was in the bleak gentility of The University Women's Club, high-glazed, handsome Authoress Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) sauntered over and said: "I've been watching you all through dinner; are you by any chance an actress? It's ridiculous, I hardly know you; but I feel you're exactly the person we want...