Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing wrong with his age, says Father (Adolphe Menjou), that Leslie Collier (Miss Swanson) can't cure; so de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye, in 1925, she became the first Hollywood actress to enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and more like a lady than you could imagine." Legend has it that Miss Swanson prefaced her triumphal return to Hollywood with the Marquis by telegraphing Paramount: "Am arriving with the Marquis tomorrow. Please arrange ovation." Gloria Swanson, single once again after her four marriages, has a busy and original mind...
This time the Nazi horror chamber competes with the forceful love of an American actress for the possession of Raoul St. Cloud, whose only crime against Germany is that he wrote a too critical review of "Mein Kampf," in 1931. For three acts and a period of twelve months love fights courageously, and--guess what?--finally prevails. But there is a twist to the ending: Raoul escapes from the concentration camp but the actress is seized by the Nazis with every indication that she will be held till he is recaptured...
Miss Helen Hayes plays Madeline guest, the American actress who preserves her Hattie Carnegie clothes throughout the German occupation of France. An actress of great warmth and emotion, her Madeline Guest, however, tends to become a cross between John's Other Wife and Mary Marlin, the result, no doubt, of Miss Hayes' extensive radio appearances in recent years. In her love scenes she is hungrily abetted by Stanio Braggiotti, who does his best with the colorless Raoul. The Nazi officers, particularly John Wengraf and Tonio Selwart, are excellent and do their best to maintain the high degree of bestiality that...
...daughter of the late great Spanish poet and novelist, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who died five years ago at the age of 67, a stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...
Lacking funds, Entrepreneur Doster appealed to NBC for help. Forthwith C. Lloyd Egner, head of NBC's radio-recording division, got together a ton of top-flight recordings, dispatched them to the Zone. Among them went a series of recordings made especially for the Jungleers by Actress Lawrence, now an honorary Jungle-Mudder, 1st Class...