Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tallulah's visit in the capital, however, was marked by such sweetness and light wit. Another Washington visitor, Britain's bodkin-tongued Lady Astor, was invited to share a platform with Actress Bankhead as a fellow guest of honor. Nancy Astor replied that she would never appear anywhere with "that perfectly horrible woman . . . I'm repelled by her!" Upon hearing of ex-M.P. Astor's unparliamentary affront, Tallulah snorted: "She probably disapproves of me as much as I do of her, the bitchy old hypocrite!" Urged to tone down her statement...
Eight minutes after the curtain went up on the 81st performance of the Broadway hit play Mrs. Patterson (TIME, Dec. 13), the show's star, feline Warbler-Actress Eartha Kitt, departed from the script to murmur: "I can't go through with it." Then she departed from the stage. With no understudy to throw into the breach, the theater gave refunds to some 900 playgoers. Why hadn't the show gone on? Eartha, according to her agent, was ailing seriously with a kidney infection. Whatever ailed her, she was back in the show next evening, looked...
Hollywood last week used television to introduce to 31 million viewers its newest, and possibly funniest, comedy team: Irene Dunne and Louella Parsons. Actress Dunne and Columnist Parsons were supposed to have only bit parts in the 1½-hour program devoted to nominations for moviedom's treasured Oscars-but they stole the show. Broadcasting from the Cocoanut Grove, Irene Dunne's performance as straight man was one that even Dean Martin could envy. As for Lolly Parsons, at one moment she was tossing off her lines with all the raffish assurance of Tugboat Annie; the next...
...Best actress: Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones); Judy Garland (A Star Is Born); Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina); Grace Kelly (The Country Girl); Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession...
Novelist de Beauvoir's Count Fosca is immortal-the result of downing a beaker of the elixir of life distilled by an Egyptian alchemist. So when he meets ravishing Regina, a 20th century French actress, Fosca is 700 years old (he still looks thirtyish) and is thoroughly fed up with life...