Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both had been behind bars since the week U.S. troops entered the wrecked capital. Nic, a 42-year-old playboy, who once escorted Actress Anna May Wong to Hollywood nightclubs, had been allowed to live exceedingly well in a Manila penthouse during the Japanese occupation. Sergio Jr., regarded as the most brilliant of the sons, had operated a commercial firm, amassed a small fortune during the wartime months when many other Filipinos starved...
Chicago-born 38 years ago, of theatrical Stock (his mother was a French actress), frailly handsome Vincente Minnelli got into New York theaters via musical comedy, as a designer of costumes, sets and ballets. Once dropped from Paramount (where he was paid $2,000 a week), he returned to Hollywood in 1940. Up to now, he has made musicals exclusively (Cabin in the Sky, I Dood It, the luscious Meet Me in St. Louis). He was frightened at first by the straight-dramatic Clock. But he turned it into a directorial tour de force. Studiously as he researches and plans...
...sent ships to the ports of the world. The Chinese, the Irish, the Italians, Russians and men of other tongues had made it cosmopolitan. But San Francisco remained a western American city. There, where enthusiastic miners once tossed gold nuggets at Actress Lotta Crabtree-who presented the town with a memorial fountain ("Lotta's Fountain")-the old atmosphere of violence, love of opulence, independence and friendliness has thinned. But it has never been dissipated...
Then there is Shirley Temple. Miss Temple is living in the dim illumination of former plaudits. As an eight-year-old song and dance specialist she may have been cute for some; but as an actress she is about as convincing as Pauline in "The Perils...
...First known on Broadway as a musicomedy dancer, last seen there as a dramatic actress in Of Mice and Men (1937). Not to be confused with Congresswoman-Playwright Clare Boothe Luce...