Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
What better outfit to pick for a meeting with Charles de Gaulle than a snappy little soldier suit, complete with gold-braided lapels and epaulets? And that's just what Actress Brigitte Bardot, 33, stepped into for a show folk get-together at the Elysee Palace. Le General was smitten. "We are enchanted to see you-enchanted is the word," saluted France's President. "I liked Viva Maria very much." "But you saw it?" ventured a flustered BB. "Yes, on television," replied BB's newest home-screen...
Sexual Chairs. The best of the week's other specials reflected more dramatic ambition. NBC and the Hallmark Hall of Fame introduced French Canadian Actress Genevieve Bujold, 25, in Shaw's Saint Joan. Already known in the U.S. as the rebellious teen-ager from the French film La Guerre Ext Finie, the young newcomer to TV made no effort to match the mature emotion of Ingrid Bergman's oft-praised Joan in Maxwell Anderson's stage and movie versions or the mystical intensity of Julie Harris in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. She settled instead...
...both a fond farewell for Katharine Hepburn's old friend and a professional coming out for her niece, Katharine Houghton, 22, who plays the daughter. She has Hepburnesque coloring, high cheekbones and broad A's, and she is far more convincing than most stage daughters. As an actress, she has little to do but bubble with in nocent enthusiasm; Kramer has sidestepped anything as embarrassing as an integrated love scene...
...even more shameful is the almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband, and the terrifying things that happen when she hides him in a dummy room keep a thread of suspense...