Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight...
Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Novelist Busch has also just finished a screenplay (The Pursuit), is organizing a company to produce it, plans to star his actress wife, Teresa Wright...
...Actress Merman plays Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting whiz of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-and the gal whose name became a synonym (because they are punched with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
With a comedy personality that gets better from show to show, Actress Merman gets huffy, turns toughie, picks a laugh off a down-crashing joke at 100 yards. With a voice that seems trying to establish communication with Mars, she blares out, incomparably, a series of brisk Irving Berlin ditties (best: You Can't Get a Man with a Gun) and a couple of love songs...