Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
...singer but ruined her voice giving outdoor concerts, turned to playing in theatrical stock companies. She made her first hits in Broadway's Icebound and The Cradle Snatchers, attracted greater attention in Show Boat. In Hollywood she was a deft scene-stealer, won a reputation as a character actress. She lived alone, rarely took part in Hollywood's whoop...
...charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity of which she understands only after another young man's attentions have released her pent-up feelings...
Died. Mary Robison ("May Robson"), 84, veteran character actress, "dowager queen" of the screen and stage; in Beverly Hills. A small, sweet-faced woman with a diamond glint in her eye, she made her theatrical debut in Brooklyn in 1884, spent the rest of her life playing pathetic slaveys, sly grandmothers, iron-willed matriarchs, frowsy housewives and alcoholic old harridans. She reached stardom on the stage (in The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary) when she was 49, reached Hollywood stardom (in Lady jor a Day) when she was 75. Two disclosures followed her death: she was six years older than...
Domestic Relations Bureau: Ava Gardner, 19-year-old actress wife of Mickey Rooney since January, dropped her divorce suit, announced things were going to be patched up. From Rooney, still home with mother, came silence...