Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precedent is always useful in court, so Gina Lollobrigida, 36, was saying: "The theater has always been full of daring performers since Grecian times -even the great Greta Gar bo, who undressed much more than today's actresses without creating a scandal." La Lollo was in a Roman court on charges of "outraging the public morals" by appearing apparently nude behind a bed sheet in Le Bambole (The Dolls). This was silly, said she, loftily. No great actress tries to create a scandal. "Even a spicy part can be done seriously." And besides, she cooed to the judge...
...Star Is Born on the late show, Liza Minnelli, 21, found her own rainbow. Poised, but grinning gleefully, she stood before a packed ballroom at Manhattan's Hotel Astor to accept the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the season's best musical actress for her Broadway debut in Flora, the Red Menace, a tepid comedy she heats up with a dramatic voice that brings memories of Garland yet is still her own. Her mother Judy couldn't attend; she was at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles, recovering from...
...during the day, not even for lunch," Samantha recalls. "On both Saturdays and Sundays I was obliged to rehearse from 11 in the morning to 7 at night, every weekend. It was murder. It was fantastic. I lived on my nerves." To coach Samantha, Wyler called in Character Actress Kathleen Freeman, who not only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha was watching Stamp sing a merry-mad cockney song...
...Wyler followed the unusual practice of shooting all the interiors first, and in sequence. "The intense growth she achieved was, jeepers, a tremendous leap," says Kathleen Freeman. "It was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life to watch a character being made at the same time an actress is reaching her own stature." Samantha remembers it otherwise: "I guess I was supposed to feel trapped, and I did. I lost about ten pounds. Wyler loved it. 'Aaah,' he said. 'You're wasting away...
Three weeks ago at the Cannes festival, The Collector made more than that. The jury decided to dip into one film for both Best Actor and Best Actress, awarded them to Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. On the private-showing circuit in Hollywood, Samantha is being touted as having a rare combination of acting talent and physical beauty, and Wyler's wiles may have set up two more Oscar nominations. If so, that's perfectly fine by Willie Wyler. "I'm particularly pleased for this award for the two kids," he said serenely. "I prefer that...