Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides' parable of disastrous ambition is charged with timeless emotion, and Director Michael Cacoyannis keeps this production in swirling, stylized motion. Greek Actress Irene Papas brings to her role of Clytemnestra a smoldering tension that erupts in a cry expressing the pain of a woman whose husband destroys their daughter for his own ends...
...cinema's favorite boogeyman (Breathless, The Thief of Paris); and Elodie Belmondo, 31; by mutual consent; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Paris. He charged her with "a guilty relationship with a friend in Switzerland" and she accused him of "corporal relations with a well-known actress" (Ursula Andress' best notice to date...
...Maid clearly has charisma, but how does Shaw indicate it? He has the other characters say several times: "There's something about the girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must make the audience believe in the other characters' phenomenal belief in her. This, Diana Sands fails to do. She stresses Joan the outward realist and scants Joan the inner mystic. Her voice can be heard, and a trifle too stridently, but her "voices" are mute...
...publicly deplored "the wall" most Negro performers face. With indubitable talent and spunk, she has proved that the wall can be scaled. Yet she is encouraging herself, or being encouraged, as a Negro, to attempt parts for which she currently lacks the size, range and maturity as an actress...
Married. Harry James, 51, top trumpeter and big-band leader in the 1940s and early '50s, now making the Las Vegas scene swing; and Joan Boyd, 27, former Vegas showgirl; he for the third time (the others: Singer Louise Tobin, Actress Betty Grable), she for the second; in Reno...