Word: elissa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born. To Elissa Landi, 39, novel-writing stage and screen actress; and Curtis Kinney Thomas, 38, author; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Caroline Maude Landi Thomas. Weight...
...Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Elissa Landi advocated that dramatic critics "temper their honesty" to help the theater's business...
...fifth columnists via a program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before the show's run had ended, it would be firmly established as the dizziest radio drama ever...