Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armor & Pink Tights. Reviewer Shaw has nothing to say about the other five; to him Actress Ellen Terry is Topic A. The great Playwright conducted a long and passionate correspondence with the great Actress, but rarely met her-by a well understood agreement to keep everything platonic. Now, 17 years after Ellen's death, Shaw takes care to get it on record that there was nothing much between Watts and Ellen. Writes...
...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...
...plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...
...beyond its shimmer of personality, their acting has the tingle and fizz that makes high fun of theatergoing. But there are other reasons. One is that the Lunts are married, which lends a piquancy-in-reverse to the stage's most frequent living-in-sinners. Finally, there is Actress Fontanne's miraculous, unchanging youthfulness. Nearing 60, she could still pass for a glamorous...
Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...