Word: eva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...please ladies, LIFE'S cinema hero-of- the-week was Hollywood's "beautiful" Robert Taylor, who plays opposite Greta Garbo in Camille to be released shortly. Following this feature, LIFE presented four other memorable Camilles: Bernhardt's, Ethel Barrymore's, Theda Bara's, Eva Le Gallienne's. A memorable color shot from the live theatre showed Helen Hayes & Co. in the great third-act pageant of Victoria Regina, eye-filling scene hitherto overlooked by snappers of performance pictures. To LIFE'S editors Miss Hayes also opened her private albums for her own picture...
...none-too-scrupulous grandfather who soon lie on a bed of roses through the darling simile and bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan as the grandfather, and he anties of Stepin Fotchit...
Sniffed Baroness Eva Blixen-Finecke: "I'm sorry I did not go along. I would not mind a little water...
...Dimples Appleby (Shirley Temple) lives with her grandfather (Frank Morgan), a lovable, broken-down actor. A rich old lady (Helen Westley) wants to provide Dimples with what that little girl calls a better "envinament." The struggle implicit in this situation is amicably adjusted when Dimples wins acclaim as Little Eva in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which her grandfather, under cork, disguises himself...
Miss Temple is seven. Still apparently untouched by the years - three since her cinema career began - she steals scenes from two oldtime stage mimes, dances, sings, mugs shamelessly on Little Eva's death bed. Kindest shot: the back of Frank Morgan's head when Shirley, her arms twined around his neck, is sobbing out an embarrassingly sentimental ballad called Picture Me Without...