Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the pleasure that the director (Y. Fried) seems to take in noble poses, most of the straight scenes are successful. And that is due to a lovely Viola, Katya Luchko, who is also a powerful actress. While serious roles are done in a somewhat over stylized way. The Russian actors are magnificent in the comic scenes. The conspiracy against Malvolio is a pleasure to watch, and his final downfall is a great success, ingeniously accomplished...
...Champagne. Marilyn's publicity clippings began to arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...
...Pink Tights. She and Joe were married in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1954. Laughing for the cameras, they took their trip to the Far East, where Japanese crowds smashed doors, mobbed cars and fell in fish ponds to get a look at the "Honorable Buttocks-Swinging Actress." When Marilyn sang and danced for the troops in Korea, she got a wilder reception than the news of peace in Seoul...
...Real Actress? All at once Marilyn could talk without any stutter at all. She could hardly stop talking. She was gay, and her wit ran free. She leaned less on her friends, stood more on her own feet. Her health was better. The rashes, the sweats, the psychosomatic colds came less often. The old fears were still there, but now there was a way to transform them. "I never dared to think about it," says Marilyn, "but now I want to be an artist. I want to be a real actress...
Divorced. Henry Fonda. 51, drawling actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), screen (Mr. Roberts) and TV; by Susan Blanchard, 27, his third wife, sometime actress and stepdaughter of Producer-Lyricist Oscar (Oklahoma!) Hammerstein II; after five years of marriage, one child; in Reno...