Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of her son Rainier. Later, Polignac attempted to kidnap his son, who was then a schoolboy in England, but doughty old Prince Louis won custody in a bitter battle in a London court, and Rainier remained the heir apparent. In 1949, three years after marrying an aging actress, Prince Louis died, leaving his 24 titles, his considerable bank account and his principality to Rainier...
Comedian & Playwright. With both an actress and an American among her recent predecessors, Princess-elect Kelly should have no difficulties with her royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George (Craig...
...comedy" is chiefly a sequence of well-planned opportunities for the Lunts to display their past mastership at all the bright surfacy wrinkles of their profession. If, in time, a blindfolded Lynn Fontanne can identify certain members of the audience, almost any blindfolded member of the audience could identify Actress Fontanne from a single coo. In The Great Sebastians, however, the Lunts' cooing counts for less than their billing: the show is liveliest when it is making fun of show folk, and the Lunts are most delightful when they are capering as hams. The plot also permits them their...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews H. V. Kaltenborn and Actress Carol Channing...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna ("the world's greatest actress") Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...