Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted...
...Actress Annabella, wife of Tyrone Power (next-to-next-to-latest friend of Lana), got around to suing for divorce after almost nine years of marriage, 15 months of admitted separation. The day she filed suit, Husband Ty welcomed Actress Linda Christian home from Mexico...
Broadway's Judith Anderson, hair-raising star of Medea (adapter: Robinson Jeffers), responded to a request by the Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...
...Actress Buff Cobb, 21, granddaughter of the late Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, sued her second husband for divorce after seven months of marriage. She said that the husband, Actor William Eythe, had hit her a couple of times last fall. Two days later, in a seesawing mood, she called the whole thing...
...Actors. For acting honors, Hollywood ran second to the British. The Manhattan critics called Deborah Kerr the year's best actress-for her work in Britain's The Adventuress and Black Narcissus (no mention was made of Miss Kerr in MGM's The Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia...