Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greer Garson and Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, got the homage of honorifical Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. Actress Garson: an honorary Doctor of Humanities; Statesman Romulo: an honorary Lit.D...
With personable implausibility, winsome Cinemactress Allyson now protests: "I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be a doctor." But after such pictures as Music for Millions, Two Girls and a Sailor, Her Highness and the Bellboy, and now Sailor, she seems reasonably content with her fate, her high place in fan-magazine popularity polls, her standing as a kind of female counterpart of Van Johnson, and her salary (about $750 a week). Her next picture: Two Sisters from Boston, as a sister to Singer Kathryn Grayson. Her modest ambition: to act like Margaret Sullavan...
...story: a childless young actress (Maureen O'Hara), married to a successful young producer (John Payne), takes in a little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
Tantalized, the audience waited. The play was forgotten, all eyes hung hungrily on the luscious, yellow fruit in the actress' hand...
...irate audience suspected that the same fate was in store for two more, jealously guarded by the property man. The three bananas had been contributed by a drama lover of Great Yarmouth, who had made his three children give up their precious fruit. It was doubtful whether Actress Sylva had any right to eat them. By law, only children under 18 are entitled to bananas in Britain. Miss Sylva is over...