Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The escaped convict in this week's production of The Desperate Hours at the Mineola Playhouse on Long Island is a Negro-Sammy Davis Jr. When first seen on Broadway seven years ago, he was white-Paul Newman. Davis' talents give the role a snarling power it has...
Lady Brando. The potentates at Universal were articulately querulous. Said one: "What audience would ever believe that the hero would want to get her at the fadeout?" The turning point of her career came in 1934 when she peroxided her hair and stole the show as Mildred, the mean little...
Ruth Elizabeth Davis-her stage name was borrowed from Balzac's La Cousine Bette-was born in Lowell. Mass., the daughter of an unamiable patent attorney who was divorced from his wife when Bette was seven. Supported by her mother, Bette won two dramatic scholarships in Manhattan, took off...
Though she became known as "the Fourth Warner Brother." Stonewall Davis had to fight for literate scripts and intelligent directors. In her most distinguished films-notably, The Old Maid, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve-she played grueling, unsympathetic parts that most other actresses would shun. Today, living...
Press lords, like great generals, are expected to be a trifle mad, but the maddest of the lot, and one of the lordliest, was James Gordon Bennett Jr. Of the two James Gordon Bennetts (the father founded the New York Herald, the son added the New York Evening Telegram and...