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...Angeles, Charlie Chaplin, who will be 60 in April, and fourth wife Oona, 23, were expecting their third child this spring, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. That would make Charlie's fifth (not counting Joan Berry's daughter, whom he supports but denies...
...past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry...
Hollywood Was his invention. Charlie Chaplin said, "The whole industry owes its existence to him." Yet of late years he could not find a job in the town he had invented. He clung to the shadows, a bald, eagle-beaked man, sardonic and alone. At parties, he sat drinking quietly, his sharp eyes panning the room for a glimpse of familiar faces, most of them long gone. David Wark Griffith had been The Master, and there was nobody quite like him afterwards...
Lita Grey, tiger-eyed second of Charlie Chaplin's four wives, was having none of this backing & filling: she decided to sue third husband Arthur Day for divorce after ten years because her new career (as a peripatetic nightclub singer) made things impractical...
Rational Sharpness. Short of such majestic challenges, Olivier is as sure in his work, and as sure a delight to watch, as any living artist. No other actor except Chaplin is as deft a master of everything which the entire body can contribute to a role; few actors can equal him, in the whole middle register of acting. He takes such little words as My father's spirit in arms! and communicates and is worthy of their towering poetry. He can toss off lines like For every man hath business and desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate...