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DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...
...Afternoon, throngs would dig up the pennies necessary to get them in the picture show to see Gary Cooper in A Farewell to Arms. As things got worse, film fantasy became more and more a handy escape; Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Winner Take All with James Cagney and Horse Feathers with the Marx brothers. Once, the Dixon theater, which had a three-keyboard Barton organ, imported a popular radio entertainer, Gene Autry, for a stage appearance. But the town's 1932 movie year climaxed with the showing (at the shocking premium evening rates...
...entirely too young for this sort of award. "What do they mean by 'lifetime achievement?' " asked the 62-year-old composer-conductor. "I'm just beginning." Onetime Stage Queen Lynn Fontanne had no such quibble; she turned 93 on the evening she joined Bernstein, Actor James Cagney, 81, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 71, and Soprano Leontyne Price, 53, in receiving a coveted Kennedy Center honor for career achievement in the performing arts. At weekend-long festivities that included a musical tribute at the Kennedy Center, star-struck Washingtonians clustered around such visiting Hollywood idols as John Travolta...
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson...
Rowlands' young costar, John Adames, was all of seven when Gloria was filmed. But even now he possesses the dark good looks of a gnome gigolo. His mannerisms seem as if the director might have bought them at a movie-memorabilia shop: gestures from Cagney, a voice as wispy as Peter Lorre's, sardonic smiles from the early John Cassavetes. But they are perfectly suitable to the slapdash style and gravelly tone of a film that uses Method acting to conceal, and then reveal, the workings of a soft old Hollywood heart...