Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England on an opera tour and decided to stay. Paolo showed talent on the piano, then the violin, and gave solo recitals before settling into the salon-music business. Over the years he gained the respect of London's music world, began broadcasting, and became Composer-Playwright Noel Coward's musical director...
...turning and delivering a line." José Ferrer, then playing in The Silver Whistle, went to six matinees in a row, explaining: "I've been in this business a long time, and Rex Harrison is the only actor doing comedy that I can learn from." Noel Coward told him: "After me, you are the best light comedian in the world...
...Coward? "It might be asked," noted the resolution, "why these people did not take an open stand against Stalin and remove him from leadership." The answer, said the Central Committee, flatly contradicting Khrushchev's earlier admission that Stalin's subordinates were afraid to risk their necks, was not "that there was a lack of personal courage." It was, rather, that...
...Hope vehicle, the film has its points. Bob is pictured as a ne'er-do-well cartoonist and psychopathic coward who has turned to an analyst for help because Bromo Seltzer has failed him. Reduced to painting nudes on ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...
...honor roll for acting was almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...