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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Phoenix | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/28/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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