Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show Hagar sitting on her house steps, feet together, head and shoulders agonizingly tense, the audience burst into applause: Ballerina Kaye created the part in 1942, and nobody else has ever danced it. Pillar of Fire (set to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht) established her as a unique dancing actress who brought new depth to ballet. Last week Ballerina Kaye danced the part with the same old tragic fervor. ¶ Pillar's British Choreographer Antony Tudor, 46, who was originally "curator" of the company's Modern English wing, was on hand last week to dance the part...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Oscarwinning Actress Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...
Even the old March 15 jokes failed to carry over to the new deadline of April 15. Back in the 1930s, when Actress Carole Lombard, following the lead of a Supreme Court justice, said that she liked to pay taxes, there was an almost audible national gasp. But familiarity breeds consent. It has become more and more unfashionable to criticize the income-tax level. A psychology professor, Richard J. Dowling of Holy Cross College, has gone farther than Miss Lombard or Justice Holmes; they had merely expressed a personal pleasure in paying taxes. Dowling raised it to a maturity rite...
Comings & Goings. CBS went to color for its hour-long production of Stage Door. As on Broadway, the action was confined largely to an actresses' boarding house, and the TV cameras had to hop to keep up with the frantic comings and goings of girls, guys and assorted spear-carriers. The play's moral-that the legitimate theater is devoted to the true and beautiful and Hollywood to the cheap and shoddy-is not only a dubious one (especially in the light of this year's Broadway scatology), but seemed to come with poor grace from television...
...Best actress: Grace Kelly, for her role as the sad-mouthed wife of the down-and-out actor in The Country Girl...