Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whose play, in turn, was based on a real character, Micaela Villegas, a celebrated actress in 18th century Peru who became an aging viceroy's mistress and lived in a dazzling palace he built for her. Her end is shrouded in legend. In his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder relates that her beauty was so marred by smallpox that she never afterwards left her mansion, except when she sought solace in a convent. Her nickname, La Perricholi, is supposedly a combination of chola, which in Peru means a woman of mixed birth, and perra, which...
...much deeper than a puddle, and the moviegoer can usually slosh ahead without bogging down. Then too, Director Joseph Anthony keeps his actors moving nimbly along. Actor Lancaster does a businesslike job as the rainmaker. Prud'Homme and Holliman are excellent as the father and the younger brother. Actress Hepburn does not always surely suggest the stages in Lizzie's life, as she passes from emotional chrysalis to vivid imaginal maturity, but she holds the eye in scene after scene like a brilliant moth as she batters wildly about one or another light o' love. Most welcome...
Although British Actress Brenda de Banzie plays the villainess with a properly cold, glassy and unruffled air, Speaking of Murder never really pays off as a scare piece. Beyond making no attempt at mystery, it offers nothing authentic in terms of shudders, nothing urgent in the way of suspense. It has the leisureliness and even the longueurs of a conversation piece, but in places some of the rewards. It is precisely when Actress de Banzie and a hard-drinking, hard-bargaining Estelle Winwood-who is blackmailing her-are speaking of murder that Speaking of Murder comes most happily to life...
Divorced. By Vivian Elaine (real name: Vivian Stapleton), 35, actress (Miss Adelaide of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen): Manny G. Frank, 54, her longtime agent; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in Little Rock...
...Hollywood Fame Poll Award is given each year to the top money-making movie actress or actor...