Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restraint throughout that saves the picture from becoming mandlin. Jane Wyman, who has hitherto seemed, to be an actress with partly concealed talents, does a splendid job as the mother, who has prematurely lost all her youth by the death of three children in infancy. Gregory Peck, rather a child's memory of his father than the real thing, does about the best that can be expected in his unsatisfying role. But Claude Jarmans, as the twelve-year-old hero, carries the burden of the film, as well as the acting honors...
Nothing was too good for a prospective buyer. Johnny had even introduced Elliott to Movie Actress Faye Emerson, had flown her East for a visit and had presented her with $132 worth of war-scarce nylons because she was "so charming." There were expensive weekends from Palm Springs to Washington. There were other favors...
Next? There was Elliott Roosevelt, of course, and his actress wife, Faye Emerson. Meyer claimed to have picked up over $1,000 worth of their hotel, bar, party and race-track checks. On the distaff side, the names read like theater marquees or the roll call at Hollywood's Central Casting. Actresses Lana Turner, Linda Darnell and Ava Gardner were said to be on the committee's list. A leggy, blonde ex-riveter named Judy Cook declared that she had been paid $100 to put on her swimming act in the Hughes pool for visiting dignitaries. Actress Myrna...
...will not treat me in such a fashion that my children will grow up to hate America." Luise Funk, a witch-eyed redhead, echoed this threat of future hatred: "The things happening now to the German people are a humiliation they will never forget." That plump valkyrie, former Actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, had a specific grievance. Recently one of the camp's hungry rats had taken a bite out of her ankle. Said Frau Göring...
...Then she dimmed. She was making a nice living, but chiefly as a loan-out. One day Irving Thalberg (Hedda remembers when L.B. hired him) decided: no more loan-outs. "Irving," she cried, "you don't mean me?" "Yes, Hedda," he replied, "I mean you too." As an actress, she was finished...