Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great actress," instructed Actor Mason, "has talent plus intelligence plus imagination plus X." The only cinemactress whom Mason currently found in possession of "plus X": Greta Garbo. The other four best: Dorothy McGuire, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, and "a non-pareil," Lena Home (see Music...
...actress who plays Cleopatra has a knotty problem too: she has to seem the very breath of passion without having any real chance to be passionate. Because the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's day had to be acted by a boy, she and Antony are permitted no high love scenes. No wonder the Cleopatras on Broadway have not been many, and have not been memorable...
...wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said, the loveliest woman in all Ireland...
...scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
Married. Donald Marr Nelson, 59, plump, balding wartime WPBoss; and Australian-born Valerie Edna May Rowell, 31, former British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...