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...commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred to the security prison in Paris, turned out to be Henri Fournier-Foch, 50, grandson of heroic Marshal Foch, Allied Supreme Commander of World...
...away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch in U.S.A., Edie Adams and Eileen Heckart in Mother Courage. Last week Paula Prentiss and Dan O'Herlihy opened in Houseman's superb new production of Measure for Measure, and the group's next production will be the world premiere of a new play based on John Hersey...
...Director Houseman, whose diffident and quiet manner never quite accompanies him into rehearsals. He is an acerbic, hard-riding actor-jockey, whose casts love him, loathe him, and respect him. "He slices them off at the ankles," says one of his assistants, "especially the girls." In a rehearsal Nina Foch once made a suggestion about the lighting, and he let her have it: "You're not an electrician," he told her. "You're an actress-I think." Then he had a real electrician play a bilious green light on Foch for an hour...
Spartacus. Director Stanley Kubrick has turned out a surprisingly impressive film about Rome's slave uprising, despite the fact that Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch and several thousand colleagues do their acting knee-deep in blood...
Spartacus. Director Stanley Kubrick has turned out a surprisingly impressive film about Rome's slave uprising, despite the fact that Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch and several thousand colleagues do their acting knee-deep in blood...