Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to past political figures, however, the papers are less sensitive. "Speaking of John Wilkes Booth, history may have done him wrong," Tom Ethridge wrote recently. "Mrs. Lincoln had accused Honest Abe of flirting with a cute actress in the play he was watching. There was an argument. Mary Lincoln drew a .44 derringer from her handbag and fired the fatal shot. John Wilkes Booth happened to pass the presidential box at that moment. Being a true Southern gentleman, he gallantly took the rap for the first lady...
...remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
Well, as the lady's husband explained, "she would rather be an actress than a clotheshorse anyway." She certainly is no nag, and Clay Felker, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine, very broadmindedly decided he didn't mind having his wife, Actress Pamela Tiffin, 23, acting in briefs like that. Besides, even though Pamela thinks indolent Italian Marcello Mastroianni is the best actor she's ever acted against, "next to James Cagney," their parts in this picture, something unwholesome called Paranoia, have Marcello very neurotically trying to sell Pam into...
...Retire?" cried Actress Helen Hayes at a Manhattan Book and Author luncheon. "Never. I'll come back gratefully wagging my tail just as soon as someone offers me a good part that doesn't depress me." Helen already had the offer. Next day she reported that, at 65, she is beginning a new career as a repertory player with Manhattan's Association of Producing Artists-Phoenix troupe. "It has brought back the glow to my cheeks," raved Helen. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of the sort of plays that I love-plays of substance...
Barbara Barrie was the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress of 1964 for One Potato, Two Potato, and hasn't played much comedy. But she takes to it awfully well. Hers is the only character that is both believable and funny, even if on paper it might be neither...