Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vacationing at Murray Bay, Canada, in 1933, Jack met and married Marjorie Ringling, an adopted daughter of the circus Ringlings and an aspiring actress. Within three years, they were divorced. Says Javits: "I guess we were too young. She was a Catholic and I was a Jew, and that had something to do with...
...These Days. What fooled producers about Lansbury all these years was that old bugaboo, typecasting. She actually had the goods all the time. In 1940, she was a blooming bundle from Britain, packed away from the blitz with her actress mother and sent to study drama in New York. She was, she says, "16, going on 95" when she got her first job-as a nightclub singer and impressionist in Canada. "I did Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields and a Wagnerian opera singer," she recalls. "I wasn't awfully good." True, but her nightclub spot earned enough money...
...Stuart Hughes's activities during a trip he made to Europe. Harvard and M.I.T. establish a $1 million nonprofit corporation to promote planning and urban development in Cambridge. A man in Hayes Bickford's urges people to decorate the City with clothespins. The Lampoon names Natalie Wood the worst actress of this year, next year and the year after that...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The vestiges of British influence in India color a wry, graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who tours the provinces doing Shakespeare and finds her reallife romantic role more difficult to play...
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE (Ala.) Helen Hayes, L.H.D., actress...