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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest male classical dancers. Last week he also leaped into a dramatic role: Stanley Kowalski, in Valerie Bettis' version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Clive Brook plays this pukka sahib version of Marlon Brando with a skill that makes "stiff upper-lip" an entire facial expression...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Shanghai Express | 4/23/1955 | See Source »

...Waterfront, a black-and-white, normal-width movie made in New Jersey, was named 1954's best picture, picked up seven other Oscars-e.g., for best actor, Marlon Brando; best supporting actress, Eva Marie Saint; best director, Elia Kazan; best story and screenplay, Budd Schulberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Suddenly grave and well-behaved, Marlon Brando left off his blue jeans, put on a well-pressed dinner jacket, arrived at Hollywood's Pantages Theater right on time, amiably curled his lip at TV cameras. After the show, the reformation seemed complete: Oscar Winner Brando obligingly bussed Grace Kelly's porcelain cheek for the benefit of fans and photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...goes to jail). Roddy McDowall was excellent as the troubled man of wealth, and J. Pat O'Malley had a field day with his muleheaded part. On Star Tonight, a 30-minute program aimed at giving actors their first starring TV roles, young Charles Aidman managed, without any Brando mannerisms, to play a hillbilly who pins the murder of his wife on the local sheriff (Buster Crabbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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