Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though for months Vi's were whistling all around the theater, the cast never missed a performance. "There were plenty of times when we were ready to chuck it," one young actress admitted, "but what could we do when Dame Lilian kept going on?" Dame Lilian Braithwaite, Arsenic's Abby Brewster and the English stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty...
...Hollywood itself, Comedian Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for the death of an actress following a pajamaed "orgy." There, too, a small group of men who knew less about show business than fur dealing (Marcus Loew), jewelry merchandizing (Lewis J. Selznick), glove selling (Samuel Goldwyn), cloth sponging (William Fox), railroad engineering (Sam Warner), were struggling among hundreds of others "from Saturday night to Saturday night" in an atmosphere of "ruthless conflict, chicane, daring, and genius...
Emmy Sonnemann GÖring, the buxom actress whom buxom Reich Marshal Her mann Gring married in 1935, arrived last week at Neustadt, near NÜrnberg...
...Best performance by an actress: Laurette Taylor, as the nagging, down-at-the.-heel mother in The Glass Menagerie...
...unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...