Word: costar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before she went onstage as Lady Macbeth at Boston's brand-new, nylon-roofed arena theater last week, Irish Actress Siobhan McKenna sent a note to her costar, Jason Robards Jr. "Dear Macbeth," she wrote. "It's funny that after all these years I haven't got to know your first name. I want you to know that yours is the most moving and truly poetic Macbeth I have ever known." When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan...
...sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation at the rude Professor Higgins, touching as she manfully struggles with a mouthful of marbles...
Bing Crosby, a little nervous himself at undertaking so exacting a dramatic role, was dubious about his untried costar, and said so. But before the shooting was over, Crosby was telling Seaton, "Never let me open my big mouth again," and talking of taking Grace out dancing...
...head but another girl's body. "It makes me so mad," says Grace. "And the dress isn't even in the picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture-a western with Spencer Tracy scheduled to costar. After two days' of talk, Grace was still noncommittal; she would wait, she said coolly, until she had seen the completed script...
...told how John had once returned from a Honolulu stag party with a stripteaser's "large black bite" on his neck. And after one studio party, he came home tight at dawn, smashed a door pane to get in, admitted he had dropped by the house of his costar, Gail (The Lawless) Russell. Countered Wayne: one whole week, when he was away in Hawaii, Esperanza's home-loving house guest was Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton. At week's end, the Waynes agreed to agree on money, but John still intended to have his day in court. Hollywood...