Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young woman around whom the drama and action centers is Comrade Commander Natasha, played by the lovely Russian film actress Zoya Fyodorva. Her rough, heavy clothing and high boots fail to hide her lovely charm, which fairly oozes out, if given half a chance. Besides her hospital duties, which are very arduous, she has to manage a group of young nurses who are full of life and still half scared to death...
Hollywood's latest attempt to publicize an actress through the Lampoon's annual "worst" list ran aground yesterday, when Lampy President Robert C. Benchley Jr. '43 laughed off a Coast-provoked Tufts College challenge to a public debate on the merits of Veronica Lake...
...said he could get me some wonderful publicity in the Harvard Lampoon, now that his son was editor, I didn't believe it. But he certainly came through." Lampy bestowed Ann Sheridan the distinction of being least likely to succeed, and Hollywood immediately flooded the nation's presses with actress' alleged scathing remarks...
...home. For days the movies' best screwball comedienne had been traveling crosscountry patriotically, plugging defense bonds. In Indianapolis she had lent a hand at flag-raisings, jampacked the city's big Cadle Tabernacle for a rally, where she led The Star-Spangled Banner. The blonde actress-who had often said she was glad she was not beautiful-in one day raised $2,000,000. Indianapolis called her Defense Bond Saleslady No. 1. Said plain-spoken Miss Lombard: "I'm like the barker at a carnival...
...mischief-making despot fills the house with Chinese, penguins, an octopus, a mummy case, etc. He informs his nurse that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...