Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A young actress (Felicity Kendal) encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial era, in a brilliant and graceful comedy...
Died. Paula Strasberg, 55, wife of Actors Studio Head Lee Strasberg and mother of Actress Susan, who helped her husband preach the gospel of Method acting, served as dramatic coach to Marilyn Monroe; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...worst, Cloportes is a squashy but grimly amusing study of insect behavior. At best, it pins down some first-rate talent. France's Singing Idol Charles Aznavour wryly impersonates a crook-turned-cultist whose swami act is last seen floating in the Seine, and Veteran Actress Françhise Rosay rabbets in some surprises as a hardened crone who rents out high-powered burglary tools by the hour. Any doubt that the female is the deadlier of the species is dispelled by shapely Irina Demick, who shows up rather late as an art gallery receptionist all abustle with...
Norma Levin proves herself a fine straight actress as Adriana. But with her two numbers--"Falling in Love With Love" and "Sing For Your Supper"--she seems a little uneasy. It also falls to her lot to sing some of "The Shortest Day of the Year," a song which demonstrates Lorenz Hart at his least inspired. Carol Schectman is a singer first and foremost, and even a little below her range, as in "This Can't Be Love," she works with abundant wonders...
When it came to awards, the night belonged to The Sound of Music, which won five, including the prizes for the best picture and best director (Robert Wise). Veteran Lee Marvin, 42, the hilarious mugger in Cat Ballon, was best actor. The best-actress award amounted to a battle of Julies: Andrews (for Sound of Music) and Christie (for Darling) -and Christie won it. For their performances in supporting roles, Martin Balsam got an Oscar for A Thousand Clowns, and Shelley Winters got her second (her first, in 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank) for A Patch of Blue...