Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every night for the past six weeks in the London hit A Queen Came By, Actress Thora Hird had spoken these lines in fear and trembling, while a sympathetic stage manageress stood in the wings with a glass of brandy at the ready. Whenever she spoke them, said Actress Hird, the second-hand Victorian jacket she wore in the third act tightened inexplicably about her neck and invisible hands seemed to choke...
...woman reporter tried the jacket with no effect, but no one paid much attention to her. The curse of the jacket was for more sensitive folk. The very next time Actress O'Foyle put it on, she fainted dead away. "There were hands," she gasped on reviving, "very old hands and very gnarled. They had worked on the land...
...herself-a few blocks up Broadway to kick up her heels in such musicomedies as Virginia, Great Lady and Stars in Your Eyes. When Ballet Theatre started up in 1939, she tagged along to auditions with her roommate. What Choreographer Antony Tudor was doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...
Onetime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray, 47, sought $1,000,000 from Columbia Pictures for alleged damages caused by a movie named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...
...high-powered choreography in a shoe shop-Astaire proves that at 50 he is still the best all-round heel-totoe man in the business. The rest of The Barkleys proves that Ginger (who, like the heroine she plays, has had her fling as a dramatic actress) is still the best movie dancing partner that Astaire has ever...