Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RACHEL, RACHEL. Actor Paul Newman makes his debut as director in a quiet tale of a frustrated schoolteacher just entering middle age. His wife. Actress Joanne Woodward, gives the film an added stature with her achingly real portrayal of the heroine...
...they have little trouble recognizing one another, if only because they are all inveterate train and boat travelers. When Composer Andre Previn and his wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian...
Like Funny Girl, which is also about an intense, driven actress, Star wastes its emotion on backstage bromides. Again there is the rags-to-bitches process, with the innocent little slum waif metamorphizing into a neurotic stranger to her husband, her child and, finally, herself. Again there are the hoofing and puffing resurrections of ricky-tick dance routines, which have long since been kidded to death in Thoroughly Modern Millie and on Laugh-In. The scrawny script merely vamps till the next number is ready; the shimmering show biz of the Twenties and Thirties, which once seemed spun of gossamer...
...Harvey, 40, the movies' handsome heel (Room at the Top, Darling); and Joan Cohn, 54, widow of Cinemogul Harry Cohn, ex-wife of Shoe Manufacturer Harry Karl, and Laurence's constant companion for the past eight years; he for the second time (he was divorced by British Actress Margaret Leighton in 1961), she for the third; in Nassau...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...