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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to call your attention to quite an error in your International Edition of Jan. 13 re cinema actress Lida Baarova, wife of Gustav Frohlich, in the famous Goebbels slapping incident. Your article states Frohlich has not been heard of since. He is not only alive, but just finished a picture in Berlin, which is at present playing in Theater Wien on Kurfurstendamm. ... I told Frohlich he was dead, but he would not believe me. . . . JOHN F. RENICH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Lewis and Elliott, after the broadcast, were straightening each other out on the subject of Elliott's plunge in the Texas State Network a few years ago-the one Jesse Jones fished him out of. Elliott's actress-wife, Faye Emerson, presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...fateful day in 1940, a would-be actress named Deborah Kerr (rhymes with star) was sitting in a London restaurant with an acquaintance of British Producer-Director Gabriel Pascal. When Pascal himself was introduced, he promptly chanted in his richest Magyar overtones: "Sweet lady, you have a spiritual face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded, 5 ft.-7 in. frame was a bit bulky for ballet, and realizing, as she now says, that "this [indicating her face] was the only thing I had to work with," she began hunting jobs on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

With the announcement of the Shaw presentation, the Workshop started immediately a city-wide search for a suitable actress to portray Jean. Elizabeth Bergner, currently appearing in the Boston production of "Miss Julie," has been invited to witness casting tryouts in Sanders, Friday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 5 o'clock. Miss Bergner played the title role in the German production of "Saint Joan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vets Workshop Picks 'Saint Joan,' Searches for Star of Shaw Revival | 2/5/1947 | See Source »

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