Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gertrude Lawrence is both more and less than a great actress. She is less in that she has yet to play the sort of sustained dramatic part that characterizes the work of a Katherine Cornell or a Judith Anderson. She is less, because whenever she undertakes non-musical roles such as Liza in "Pygmalion," her own virtuosity substitutes for the content of the play at various points throughout her performance...
...known to her fans as Little Meow, spends five hours a day on her makeup. In other respects, she is as unlike a Hollywood actress as could be. A recent interview illustrates some of the differences. "What do you think of the love letters written you by admirers?" the reporter asked. "They are funny," said...
...person to England for the first time, went a twinkling tribute from the usually decorous Manchester Guardian. "It was surely a strange trick of fortune that made Mae West famous as a film star," observed the Guardian after a long, appreciative look, "for it is hard to imagine an actress less suited to one dimension...
Appalling and terrible, Medea is somehow yet understandable and real-her emotions less hidden in the mists of the past than an Oedipus' or an Antigone's. And with a temerity as notable as her talent, Actress Anderson (Macbeth, The Three Sisters) brought those emotions spectacularly out into the open. She flung aside both classic control and realistic restraint. She played Medea half in the grand manner, half in the Grand Guignol manner; she used every wile of body and face, every art of voice and gesture, to produce something possibly mixed or impure-but definitely, undeniably overwhelming...
Poet Jeffers made his translation, "getting freer as it went," of Euripides' drama about five years ago at the urging of Actress Anderson and especially for her. He dedicated his work to her, though he had seen her act only once-in a California presentation of his Greekish Tower Beyond Tragedy. The whacking Broadway success of Medea has made up to Jeffers the recent Broadway failure of a dramatization of his poem, Dear Judas (TIME, Oct. 20). The 60-year-old poet thinks now that he might even try writing an original play "if I knew what to write...