Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best performance by an actress: Mildred Natwick as the bouncy medium in Blithe Spirit...
...Married. Actress Mimi Lilygren ("Jo Ann Sayers"), 23, who played the title role in My Sister Eileen; and Ensign Anthony A. Bliss, 29, ex-husband of Publisher Marshall Field Ill's eldest daughter, Barbara; in Manhattan...
...bearing Cinestar Bette Davis and 12-year-old bitplayer Janis Wilson across California's Lake Arrowhead overturned, dumped them into deep water 40 yards from shore. Swimmer Davis succeeded in getting semi-swimmer Wilson to shore, gave her up to her mother, who spanked the daughter, kissed the actress. "I am an old Eagle Scout," explained Miss Davis...
...Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred Hitchcock, who nosed her into a 1941 Oscar (best actress) with his picture Suspicion...
...plot and lesson would have been more palatable, however, had there been fewer muffed lines, missed cues and long, embarrassing pauses. Fay Wray has the main part in the show, and the management tells us in the program notes that it "feels honored to have this gracious lady and actress as guest star." Miss Wray, however, must put better expression into her lines and make her actions on the stage more original if she intends to have her audience equally "honored...