Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is also a strong suggestion, in this film Hamlet, that the movies have more than an enlarged medium to give to Shakespeare. A young (19) actress named Jean Simmons, who plays Ophelia, is a product of the movie studios exclusively. Yet she holds her own among some highly skilled Shakespeareans. More to the point, she gives the film a vernal freshness and a clear humanity which play like orchard breezes through all of Shakespeare's best writing, but which are rarely projected by veteran Shakespearean actors...
...Gossip of a different kind was reported in the Hearst press. Mariella Lotti, an Italian movie actress allegedly long enamored of Michael but kept irom him by history ("war is contemptuous of love"), was reported seriously considering going into a nunnery. "Will she say to the world, farewell?" throbbed the New York Journal-American. "Will she take the last step and enter?" At week's end, neither she nor her press-agent was sure...
...Actress Elsie Janis, 59, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F." in World War I, and Actor-Husband Gilbert Wilson, 42, decided to call it quits after 16 years...
Australia's Shirley Maycock, onetime swimming double for British Star Jean Simmons (Great Expectations, Black Narcissus), arrived in London with a picture contract of her own, promptly made a memorable picture with Actress Simmons...
Divorced. Vincent Price, 37, Broadway leading man (Victoria Regina, Angel Street) turned silky cinemenace (Laura, The Long Night); by Edith Barrett Williams Price, fortyish, retired stage actress; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...