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Word: actresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well so you see I'm always changing my mind about my major anyway--I'm interested in practically everything--and so now I want to be a great dramatic actress." Pause. I try a new approach...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...Restoration book jacket. (2) She can get off a wall and into a man's arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood who can boast of two relatives who are accomplished on the Spanish guitar, (These gentlemen are on display in the "Loves of Carmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Loves of Carmen" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...past year Shelley Winters, 26, has made solid hits in two successive pictures. The other was A Double Life, in which she played the waitress who got strangled. She is no longer regarded as just another cute platinum blonde: she has graduated into the actress category. Her bosses speak hopefully of "an amalgam of Harlow and Lombard," and are billing her as "the blonde bombshell." If she is not as bold as Harlow nor as brittle as Lombard, she is frequently as bouncy as Betty Hutton and as breezy as Grable. Even in repose, she is still a nifty blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...choice is tentative, though, for the HDC must still find an actor and actress who can fill the difficult lead roles. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine took the parts in the New York production 12 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Lists French Comedy for Fall | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pygmalion | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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