Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELEANORA DUSE, a study of the renowned actress by Italian Playwright Mario Fratti, will be playing at the Asolo Theater Festival at Sarasota, Fla., until Sept...
When 14-year-old Hayley Mills won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in the title role in Pollyanna, Producer Walt Disney predicted that she would mature "into an actress more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor and more talented than any star in motion pictures." He was not far wrong. Today, Hayley Mills lacks only Liz's animal splendors. At 21, she is prettier than her pictures, and a natural actress of growing authority and range...
...educated at Elmhurst Ballet School. She and her brother Jonathan and sister Juliet were warned that the theater was "a jungle." But just in case, recalls their mother, "I made sure I gave them names that would look nice on a marquee." Juliet, 25, is a West End actress, and Jonathan, 17, is a budding director. Hayley got into lights at age twelve when Film Director J. Lee Thompson saw her riding horseback and decided to test her for a part originally intended for a boy. She won, and stole the film-the 1960 thriller Tiger...
...veritable "enemy of Greek tourism," concluded Greece's ever-watchful military dictatorship when they heard some of the things Actress Melina Mercouri, 41, star of Broadway's Illya Darling, was saying about her homeland-like advising folks not to visit Greece until the soldiers go away. Therefore, Brigadier General Stylianos Patakos solemnly announced in Athens that the regime was stripping Melina of her Greek citizenship and all her property as well. "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek," snorted Melina. "Patakos was born a fascist and will die a fascist. If he wants...
Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent...