Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary MacArthur, 16, daughter of Actress Helen Hayes and Playwright Charles MacArthur, approached her stage debut in a speaking part.* Coming (to summer theaters in New Hope, Pa., and Suffern, N.Y.): mother & daughter in Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire...
Amber got kicked out of bed. After 38 days of exposure (at $10,000 a day), the multimillion-dollar boudoir epic looked like a bust to Darryl Zanuck, who decided to throw it all away and try again, later. Blonde little Peggy Cummins, British actress who had been chosen to play the lead, was apparently out of a job. But she got another. After all that buildup as a Restoration pillow-fighter she was suddenly transferred to Bob, Son of Battle-something wholesome about a sheep...
...apparently in destructible beauty. In a silver-spangled white dress flown East by Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias in the grand manner, the greatest singer-actress of her day proved that she could still be almost as easy...
...good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...