Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Velvet Touch (RKO Radio) opens with a furious quarrel. A Broadway actress (Rosalind Russell), famous as a drawing-room-comedienne, wants to move on to roles like Hedda Gabler and to move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her what she is, that she couldn't play Hedda for peanuts, and that if she leaves him he will publicize her Past. At this point Rosalind crowns the rotter with a statuette...
...Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight to see. Durante, at one point, reads a script line that sounds dangerously like a capsule review of On an Island: "I should have stayed in vaudeville. Then this wouldn't have happened...
...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...
...agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want you to play Sophie in The Razor's Edge." Betty knew that it was a part for an actress (it won Anne Baxter an Oscar) and not for her. She coolly refused it. "People would expect me to end up as a mermaid and rise with seaweed in my hair," she said, "and that wouldn't be very good for your picture, would...
Born. To Edward Vincent ("Eddie") Bracken, 34, cinecomic (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), and Connie Nickerson Bracken, 34, onetime Broadway actress: their fourth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Kathleen. Weight...