Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness and four divorces. But last week, as she finished a three-week stand at Manhattan's Copacabana, she wore...
...forget that he never rose to the rank of major, that his only accomplishment is an obsolete manual on small arms. Edgar bullies Alice right back, and stamps his army boot on her vanity by noting that the laurel wreaths she cherishes from her days as an actress were given to her, not by an adoring public, but by her own brother...
...appetizing hors d'oeuvre of an actress can sometimes keep playgoers nibbling on toothpick drama. Broadway's latest dramatic toothpicks. Daphne in Cottage D and There's a Girl in My Soup, are inane, inept, tacky, trivial, and implausible, but Sandy Dennis and Barbara Ferris may yet prove potent teasers of the public palate...
...girl friend, a married actress, wants him to accept both her artistic pretensions and Stalinist politics. Even his boss, a self-made bundle of problems, wants him to deter his daughter from the path of sexual deviation...
...twice the proper speed. The beggar's dance is frolicsome when it should be ferocious; the possession of the bride by the dybbuk is dispatched before the full terror of the assault can be developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...