Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Audrey Meadows, 31, red-haired stage actress (Top Banana), long-suffering TV wife of Comedian Jackie ("The Honeymooners") Gleason; and Randolph Rouse, 37, Washington realtor; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Gaby (which is distantly related to Waterloo Bridge, a 1930 melodrama by the late Robert Sherwood). Actress Caron has to do all these things and something even sillier. She plays a French ballet dancer who is too prim to succumb to the man she loves, though they are engaged to be married and he is about to go into battle. Later on, she refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway...
...Actress Caron, who is made up to look rather like one of those sentimentally pretty pollywogs in a Disney cartoon, hastens to roll her eyes soulfully and explain that she is just not good enough for the young man any more. "Ay ham deefrawnt.'' Fortunately, all this takes place during World War II in London, and a buzz-bomb soon comes along to simplify the situation. It pounds some sense into the heroine's head, to judge from the script, but it only leaves the spectator in a daze...
...more-than-vague hope that the Republic would reciprocate by making him its head. That was not to be. Through the siege of Paris by the Prussians and the bloody uprising of the Commune ("Both sides are mad"), Hugo wrote and loved on. One of his late conquests: Actress Sarah Bernhardt, then 28 to Hugo's 70. As age advanced, he grudged the speechmaking demanded of him by his grateful country. "To make a speech is more exhausting for me than making love three times," he said-adding, after a moment's reflection, "-or even four." He died...
...good time. Her acting is exaggerated, but happy. As the inevitable French butler, Earl Edgerton is dull, but in the role of a half-mad old man, David Roberts gives the finest performance of the evening. He is imaginative, witty and relaxed. In contrast, Lucia French, playing a disillusioned actress, seems embarrassed and tense...