Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in The Bronx 26 years ago, Anne (original name: Anna Italiano) grew up into a dark-eyed, black-haired girl with a craving for stagecraft. "I always wanted to get up in front of people and do something," she says. "When I was a little kid, I used to go up to the WPA workers in the street and ask if they'd like me to sing." After a session at the American Academy, she broke into television at 18, played leading roles for two seasons (Studio One, Kraft Theater], then put in a weary tour in Hollywood...
...trouble is, everyone's life in this country is public property. Anyone who objects to the intrusion of his private life is considered to be idiosyncratic, bizarre, uncooperative and dishonest." Uncooperatively, Brando would mumble not a word about his marriage or his pregnant wife, Variable Starlet Johanna ("Anna Kashfi") O'Callaghan Brando, who keeps uncooperatively insisting that she is a Bengalese Indian from Darjeeling (where nobody ever heard the name Kashfi...
...second and third acts, the characters are no longer types, of any description, and Schary intricately weaves the problems of F.D.R.'s drive to return despite his mother's insistence on an invalid squirearchy, of Eleanor Roosevelt's development as an individual, and of their daughter Anna's own growth as a person...
This fault disappears in the second act, and there is a great moment in Roosevelt's library where everything seems to catch hold at once. The catalyst is his awkward and lonely daughter, Anna, whom he crossly reprimands for a minor fault. But then he and Eleanor begin to communicate, and Anna, affectingly played by Roni Dengel, comprehends her parents maturely for the first time...
...merely a personal characteristic; it is the peculiar tradition of the German theater, to which she was apprenticed as soon as she could talk. Her father, Hermann Ferdinand Schell, was a Swiss playwright, moderately well known in Vienna, where he lived and worked, and where Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was born on Jan. 15, 1926. Her mother, a Viennese actress, daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family of four children. Maria was the eldest, and in the nursery dramas of that stage-struck house...