Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...
...played Portia in Chicago) in the role of Viola, who, in boy's clothes, pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving a clear, pliant reading of the part...
...radio play for her. Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
...noisily and wholeheartedly as to be outright refreshing. Walter Brennan's superb acting as "The Law West of the Pecos" lends an undercurrent of profundity to all the merry, Western violence. The plot between the shootings is supplied by the Judge's incognito love for Lily Langtree, the actress, and by the romance between a handsome saddlebum (Gray Cooper) and a homesteader's daughter (Doris Davenport, unfortunately). From character play and comedy the picture finally sinks into old fashioned melodrama, and ends up on a note of social significance to remind you that everything was only the Western Movement after...
...essence of Escape was its tingling suspense. A great German actress (Alia Nazimova), who returned from the U. S. to sell her property, is sentenced to death by the Nazis for some inadvertent but illegal financial finagling. Her U. S.-born son (Robert Taylor), sniffing along her hidden trail, discovers her plight only a few days before the execution. The nerve-racking series of events which constitute his blundering, inept attempts at rescue are enough to frazzle the composure of the most hardened cinemaddicts...