Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artist-Poetess-Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, was signed up by a sometime escort, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank (The Tender Trap) Sinatra, to make her movie debut as leading lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...
...have devoted 92 lines of the Oct. 10 Cinema section to a busty English vaudeville actress called Diana Dors, explaining in unnecessary detail the color of her lawnmower and second-hand Rolls-Royce, yet in your Milestones column you give only a scant nine lines to the memory of America's greatest young actor, James Dean, who was killed in an untimely accident...
...About Eve was made in 1950. It won the academy award that year with its story of an aging actress who is toppled from her position as the leading star on Broadway by an ambitious newcomer. This plot seems pretty ironic now, because much the same thing has actually happened, and to two of the actresses employed in this film. Bette Davis, who played the slightly sodden and sinking grade dame, retired shortly after she finished the picture. But a young girl who made her first movie appearance in All About Eve has since then become a sort of national...
...same inspiration which led director Joseph L. Mankiewicz to select Marilyn Monroe for the part must have made him also choose Bette Davis. Her interpretation of an actress who cannot quite stop acting when she is off stage exposes the sadness and emptiness of a woman who can only make believe. It is almost frightening to watch the precision with which Bette Davis disassembled the mechanism of her character and lays bare the instincts of a child...
...with her half-dozen best numbers, Joyce Grenfell would be the perfect star of the usual intimate revue. In the present unusual intimate one, she is still worth seeing, but considerably handicapped. She makes 13 appearances; the only other performers-a dance trio-appear even oftener. Onstage so often, Actress Grenfell is forced back upon the second best and even the secondhand-such things as Songs My Mother Taught Me (mother was one of Virginia's famous Langhorne sisters*). The dances only now and then rise above the agreeable, and the trio would benefit themselves and the show...