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...Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
Reiner rallied to win, 6-3, 6-3, and Harvard was off and running. Todd Lundy won at number two, 6-4, 6-2, Dan Waldman scored a 6-1, 6-0 romp over Raoul Sanchez-Elia at number three, and Kevin Shaw took his match at number four, 6-2, 6-2 over Bob Boiarsky...
...years appeared in more than 80 films; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. Born Leo Jacoby in New York City, in 1935 Cobb joined Manhattan's Group Theater where he appeared in Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. Cobb was acting in Hollywood films when Director Elia Kazan sent him a copy of a new Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, and an offer of the starring role. He accepted and in 1949 gave a landmark performance. After a decade of moviemaking and four years as Judge Garth in TV's The Virginian, Cobb...
...Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called Gus is barking his way across the country on a promotion campaign for Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood...
...testimony elicited from suspected Communists and fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined than HUAC to sprinkle Stardust in order to germinate publicity...