Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Stanley's steamer had not mentioned her at all, Helen Hayes, Broadway's "First Lady," who played Kim's mother onstage, tried to lift her own skirts well clear. "We have worked together with the greatest understanding and sympathy," said Actress Hayes. "I am an innocent bystander...
...showed no signs of calming down. When her part was offered to Understudy Malone on a permanent basis, Nancy Malone asked for $500 a week. (Kim Stanley had got at least $1,500.) Producer Whitehead offered her $450; Nancy quit in a huff (the part will be taken by Actress Cloris Leachman). "It's like having the moneychangers in the temple," Nancy bitterly told a friend-over a cup of coffee...
This was no sudden shift for Actress Taylor, who had been raised as a Christian Scientist. She first thought of adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...
...path was not an easy one, for Judaism is not a proselytizing religion; according to the frequently quoted words of 4th century Rabbi Helbo: "Proselytes are as hard for Israel as leprosy." Reform Rabbi Nussbaum set Actress Taylor reading the Bible and A History of the Jews, by Abram Leon Sachar, president of Brandeis University. He also assigned her other books, e.g., What Is a Jew?, by Morris Kertzer, and Basic Judaism, by Milton Steinberg. And they discussed the ancient traditions and modern problems of the people of Israel...
...Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya, but only one: that of a little boy holding his breath until he gets blue in the face. Still, that puts him one up on Actress Gardner...