Word: dailey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again in Pepe, a picture that noisily invites comparison with Mike Todd's Oscar-copping travelogue, and severely suffers by the comparison. Like Todd, Producer-Director George Sidney (Pal Joey) signed up Cantinflas and a couple of second-magnitude stars (Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) for the major parts, then went shopping for big-name bargains, bought up more than two dozen* of them (reported price: a Rolls a role), shot a scene or two with each, and spliced the scenes into the picture whenever it started to get dull. For the first two hours the technique works almost...
...Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...
...Every plummy-voiced English rose of an imitation actress should be dragged by the hair to see Miss Dailey," wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express. "She sweats love, breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...
Vaudeville & Lampshades. Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey. Their late father, manager of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, had some objections to Irene's theatrical ambitions, but neither he nor anyone else could have checked them. At eight, she was dancing in vaudeville, and at 18 she was launched in summer stock...
...technique courses and joined the beginners. Eventually, Berghof hired her to teach the technique courses herself to twelve classes a week and more than 200 students. Last spring, after 47 others had either tried for or turned down the part, she was chosen for Tomorrow in London. Said Irene Dailey last week: "I shall be 40 in September. I have nothing, really nothing. I'm not married. I have no children. I've been going to a psychiatrist for three years. All I really care about is the theater, but now. for the first time, I know...