Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor John Payne announced that he and Actress Gloria DeHaven would try the second trial separation of their 3½-year-old marriage. Lita Grey, second of Charles Chaplin's four wives, said that her third marriage (to Arthur Day Jr.) had proved a bust after nearly ten years. Actress Susan Peters and Producer Richard Quine found that they were through after 4½ years...
...Higher) is generally pleasant and useful, in the end it's up to Miss Lillie; and wondrous though she can be, she's not quite up to the job. Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers-and she shines. But forced, as she often is, to batter her way through a sketch, even Bea gets bruised...
...Great Catherine. The Guild and NBC spared no kopeks to give the telecast an opulent, St. Petersburg flavor. Czarina Lawrence had a star-emblazoned court (David Wayne, Joan McCracken, Erik Rhodes, Micheal MacLiammóir), required six sets in NBC's big, new Studio 8G (TIME, May 3). Actress Lawrence could have claimed to be making, as well as re-creating history: ten years ago, in a telecast of Susan and God, she was the first big star to try television...
...violently emotional, unstable, unstationary Ellen, Actress Bergner is skillful, but ultimately exhausting...
Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...