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...studios worriedly urged first aid for those front teeth that protruded and the bust that didn't. Hands off, growled Sandy. In 1962, she walked out on one television job rather than pad her bustline. She said she wanted to be hired for acting ability, period. Says Herbert Berghof, her Manhattan drama coach off and on for years: "From the beginning, she knew how to find in each character she played the story that was original and new and worth telling...
...Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance, is Diana Sands as a footloose Negro photographer...
Here and there, interesting camera work gives the film a professional gloss. But even such seasoned performers as Lindfors and Berghof falter before the pervasive foolishness of a script that asks them...
Then one day in New York's Greenwich Village he was introduced to the director of Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. With the help of the G.I. Bill, Steve won a scholarship to the Herbert Berghof Studio; later he went on to the Actors Studio. In 1956 he replaced Ben Gazzara in Broadway's Hatful of Rain...
Right Idea. Divorced from Ferrer in 1948, Uta later became the wife of Herbert Berghof. An accomplished actor (The Andersonmlle Trial, Krapp's Last Tape), Berghof is equally appreciated within his profession as a teacher. With Uta he runs the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village, an acting school with a student body of 900 and a roster of celebrated alumni like Geraldine Page and Fritz Weaver...