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...Authoress Vina Delmar took a standard emotional cliche and embellished it with enough snappy dialogue to partially hide her lack of originality. Producers Paul Crabtree and Frank Hale did well in selecting three excellent actresses and one adequate actor for the lead roles. Crabtree finished the job with generally tight direction that seldom lets the pace drag...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Mid-Summer | 1/15/1953 | See Source »

...forum was moderated by authoress Felicia Lamport (Kaplan), but featured speaker Henry Morgan was unable to attend...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Panel Finds What's Funny; Nixon Funniest, Says Capp | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed as a porcine movie mogul, Eddie Albert as a double-talking agent, and Tracey Roberts as his sexy secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 23, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...third act which I considered the high-point of the evening. Here the authoress did her impressions of four characters immortalized in the posters of Toulouse Lautree, "La Goulue," "A Lion Tamer," "Deaf Bertha," and the magnificent Yvette Gilbert. While these impressions lacked the humorous twists of the earlier ones, they seemed to be fuller, more human. The women here were dressed exactly as they appear in the famous posters, and it would be difficult if not impossible for the uninformed observer to tell that they were being played by the same person...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/15/1952 | See Source »

...That's how I came to read Tristram Shandy-which I did not enjoy. So I returned . . . to G. B. Stern and for 15 years she's been my favorite authoress. Once I had lunch with her at Albany, Piccadilly. It was a slap-up meal with the nicest steak I've ever eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Gutter | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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