Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor, seems capable enough though, in view of his large experience, he too is a little disappointing. His character possesses two sides: poet and, ultimately, shrewd businessman. The merchant is present in his performance from the beginning, but somehow the role never grows quite large enough. The veteran actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, on the other hand, adds one more to her long list of impressive performances in the part of Undershaft's rather stupid, tradition-bound and yet charming wife...
...book was a tissue of ideas-even his characters were no more than debaters' points, well made. For these reasons, the producers of this picture decided to play down, as far as possible, the subtle political angles, play up the obvious physiological curves of a handsome blonde actress named Jan Sterling. Result: a serious political satire comes off the screen as a sort of tractor romance in reverse, an anti-Communist soap opera that might more aptly have been titled Life Can Be Ugly. Orwell's book was depressing, partly because it was far too slick, but this...
...scattered with broken furniture, the floors were bare, the walls empty. The director's welcome echoed against the dirty windows while the producer smiled reassuringly from behind an ancient desk. They chatted for a few moments about the play and the weather--the director, the producer, and the young actress...
...room stood the actress, alone, balanced on her right foot. At the end of her lines she looked dejectedly at her shoes...
...Bette Davis couldn't resist some real-life emoting on Ed Murrow's Person-to-Person (CBS), on which she volunteered a friend's suggestion for her tombstone ("She did it the hard way"), while Husband Gary Merrill suggested that if Bette had not become an actress she would have been president of Lord & Taylor. Best bit: Bette reading from Robert Frost's Fire and Ice ("I hold with those who favor fire...