Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's second gifted gift to Hollywood, won the award for best cinema actress of 1944 for her performance in Gaslight. The year's best picture, Going My Way, drew Oscars for Best Actor Bing Crosby, double-threat star of radio and cinema (see RADIO), for Barry Fitzgerald as best supporting actor, and twice-Oscared Leo McCarey, for best directing and authoring the best original story. Lauding McCarey for helping "a broken-down crooner ... to win," Actor Crosby quipped: "Now if he'd find me a horse to win the Kentucky Derby, it would...
...topical account. Its salient characters: an old-line general (Raymond Massey) trying to escape the consequences of plotting against Hitler's life; a diplomat (Henry Daniell) who is sorry he can't help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when he can no longer trust her; a scientist (Peter Lorre) demoralized by Nazi torture; a stool pigeon (Faye Emerson) and an aviator...
Sophie Wing (Tallulah Bankhead) is a famous actress whose husband went abroad and enlisted in 1939, was soon after reported missing, and later declared legally dead. Now in 1944 Sophie is about to marry her leading man (Donald Cook) when a queer phone call announces that her husband is on his way to her house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather...
...appeal, there is also an artistic appeal which is 99 percent Elizabeth Bergner, star, victim, and Mrs. Carroll II. The only feature of "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" that distinguishes it from its fellow mysteries is the use of this physically and professionally exceptional Viennese star, Bergner, as a dramatic actress extraordinary, giving her full leeway rather than restricting her ability to the ordinary standing and sitting living room dialogue. Whatever Bette Davis did in the way of hair-tearing in "Juarez" and other "Bette-goes-mad" movies, is exceeded by the passion with which Miss. Bergner lives the part...
...homesick G.I. audiences: 1) "Italy is a greatly overrated country filled with nothing but heaps of rubbish, dust, flies, stenches and beggars"; 2) "I should be more than willing to give up soldiering to take up some money-making business." Leading Man Brian Aherne reported that when he kissed Actress Cornell on stage, one enthusiastic soldier shouted: "Oh, pass it around, mister, pass it around...