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Siiri Woodward's belabored Nurse and Larry Stark's meek Doctor are creditable; and Jane Hallowell has an all-too-brief cameo appearance. As Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, Terry Graham and Jean Young are somewhat lacking in a convincing naturalness; and Betty Stoneman needs to tone down her concept of Harriet, a pathetic Lizzie Borden grown senile...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

Hope Lange, 24 (married, two children), is a Hollywood rarity, a fine actress who wears sincerity like a cameo. A good girl in Bus Stop, raped, kicked and beaten in Peyton Place, a glossy career girl in The Best of Everything, she can project whatever is asked for with the professional competence of an actress who started on the stage when she was twelve (in Sidney Kingsley's The Patriots). "A lot of people who are stars never have time to work out what they are doing," says she. "Acting is important to me, and I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home for Dead Cats | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Cameo Theater (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC). Joseph Schildkraut in The Man from the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Cameo Theater (TIME, June 26, 1950). He thinks his television job is more exacting than directing on the legitimate stage, and he sees little future for Broadway: "I get a bigger audience for my flops than Broadway ever thought of having for its biggest successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Beautiful Words | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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