Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reno, waiting for her divorce decree, French Actress Swana Beaucaire went to a movie that changed her mind, wired Husband Clyde Pangborn, shy, soft-spoken round-the-world flier: "COME AND GET ME. I DON'T WANT A DIVORCE." He went...
...Britain's Parliament, members wanted to know why England's best-loved, best-paid (in peacetime: a reported $750,000 a year) Actress Gracie Fields, was permitted to leave England with ?8,000 and a fortune in jewels while ordinary people can take only ?10. Said her defenders: the money was for medical purposes, the support of her parents in the U. S. "Everything I have," said Gracie, "is the Government's whenever they want...
...favorite device for eliminating an actress from a script is to reveal that the character she portrays has to go away to have a baby. Few weeks ago, Alice Frost, who plays the title role in CBS's Big Sister, managed to get away from it all when Scripteuse Marjorie Bartlett slammed Big Sister, over seven months gone, into an auto accident, shipped her off to "Glen Falls" to recuperate. In order to bring Big Sister back at the end of this month, Miss Bartlett is planning to have a drunken no-good set fire to a tenement, blister...
Last month Burlesqueen Ann Corio made her debut as a legitimate actress at the Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string...
Married. Carol Montgomery Stone, 23, actress daughter of venerable Playactor Fred Stone; and Robert William Mc-Cahon, 26; in Forest Hills, Long Island...