Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adultery being a crime in California, Bandleader Muzzy Marcellino was well within his constitutional rights when, in a Hollywood divorce court last week, he invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to say whether he had been intimate with an actress. This was a classic use of the Fifth Amendment; no unpleasant consequences followed for the bandleader...
Sabrina (Paramount). When Hollywood's abracadabblers find a new formula for turning celluloid into gold, they overwork it every time. For Sabrina, based on Samuel Taylor's Broadway hit, Paramount's magicians used the same elements that mixed so well in Roman Holiday: Actress Audrey Hepburn, Director Billy Wilder, a switch on the old Cinderella story. Gold, in a word, is guaranteed at the boxoffice, and this is never less than glittering entertainment, but somehow a certain measure of lead has found its way into the formula...
Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
...cile Sorel: An Autobiography (Roy; $3.50) is a romantic rhapsody of author for subject. Actress Sorel played just about everything from flirtatious Moliere heroines at the Comédie-Française to a clotheshorse walking down golden stairs amid the nudes at the Casino de Paris...
...books and articles. Wife Colette was just a sort of combination kitchen maid and pretty showpiece. The acquisition of money and mistresses was Willy's chief interest in life, and Colette has described how one night, after being tipped off by an anonymous letter, she went to an actress' flat and caught her husband in the act of forwarding both aims...