Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Russian-born Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini, 29, Hollywood studio designer and husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, became a U.S. citizen. Said Actress Tierney, when questioned as a witness: "I know him to be the finest type of manhood...
Pride of the Yankees is also a very important picture for 24-year-old Muriel Teresa Wright. It is her first big role. If moviegoers like her in it, she may become cinemadom's foremost dramatic actress. If they don't, she can 1) try again; 2) remain what she is: one of the best young dramatic actresses Hollywood has turned up in many a talent hunt...
...might have been just that if she had followed her Maplewood, NJ. high-school teacher's advice to take up typing because "you can't make money as an actress." Teresa's present salary is about $1,000 a week. Daughter of a widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right...
After two years in Life With Father she was spotted by Goldwyn, who now boasts: "I knew she was a great actress before the first act was over." At any rate, he signed her to play Bette Davis' daughter in The Little Foxes. The reward for her performance was a choice role in Mrs. Miniver. Says William Wyler, who directed both pictures: "She can do nothing wrong. . . . I've never had less trouble directing anyone. She has the one best asset any actor can have: she has never committed an error in acting taste...
Vaudeville's veteran Funnyman Pat Rooney II, 62, got a license to marry blonde Actress Janet Reade, onetime member of Eddie Cantor's Whoopee, one time wife of Funnyman Pat's son, Pat Rooney III. Said Pat Rooney II of Pat Rooney III: "I haven't seen him for some years." Said Actress Janet Reade: "I haven't seen him either. Anyway I like his father better. He's a funny little guy but I love...