Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the longest-drawn-out casting to-do since Gone With the Wind, the juicy role of Maria in the forthcoming cine-version of For Whom the Bell Tolls went to dancing Musicomedienne Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig). "Her hair . . . was but little longer than the fur on a beaver pelt," wrote Ernest Hemingway of his heroine, so off came the dancer's ash-blonde glory...
...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...
Uncle Harry tells of a man (Joseph Schildkraut) who commits a perfect crime. The criminal is a mild, Milquetoastish bachelor who lives with two maiden sisters (Eva Le Gallienne, Adelaide Klein) who spoil him dreadfully but also spoil his life. They wrangle with each other, watch him like a hawk, keep him from marrying. Not being as harmless as he looks, Harry coolly schemes to poison one of them and have the other charged with the crime...
...play once more brings together Eva Le Gallienne and Joseph Schildkraut who, 21 years ago, both rose to fame in Liliom. Hardly since Liliom has either one of them acted so well...
...EVA BARTELME...