Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is that dog howling in the night?" intoned blonde, hazel-eyed Actress Felicia Montealegre, 36, from the script. Cracked Conductor Leonard Bernstein from the podium: "That's no dog, that's my wife.'' For their first professional appearance together, Lennie and his wife Felicia were rehearsing Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's sprawling dramatic oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake. Last week, with the full orchestra buttressed by assorted soloists, a boys' choir and a mixed chorus of 150 voices, the Bernsteins wound up the New York Philharmonic's season with...
...Actress Montealegre practiced her role -a speaking part that has been played by Ingrid Bergman and Vera Zorina-for six months, started rehearsing it with Lennie a week before the performance. After she got over the nervousness of working with her husband, the rehearsals went just fine. Conductor Bernstein concentrated much of his attention on the Westminster Choir ("Your ha's are fine. but your heh's are lousy"), turned to his wife to offer only an occasional piece of advice: "Darling, I would rather not make such a ritardando...
Married. Lee Ann Meriwether, 22, brunette Miss America of 1955, drama student and TV actress; and Frank Aletter, 32, actor (Bells Are Ringing); in San Francisco...
Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight...
...convincing second-rater, but he gives an agile performance as the camp entertainment director. As schmalzy Uncle Samson, Ed Wynn gets a few laughs, and Claire Trevor is sharp and clear as the irritating but well-meaning mother. Natalie Wood, a great beauty, is something less than a great actress. Her most believable moment comes when Marjorie, despairing of Broadway acting fame, says mechanically: "Sometimes I think I don't have any talent...