Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days when a ballerina without a Russian name was no ballerina at all (she was born Alicia Marks, in London). A veteran of Sadler's Wells and of Ballet Theater itself, Ballerina Markova floated through such romantic favorites as Les Sylphides and Romeo and Juliet with an airy grace that has never lost its charm. ¶ Igor Youskevitch, 43. had the audience gasping, with his handsome bounds and dizzy spins in confections such as pas de deux from Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Russian-born Danseur Noble Youskevitch, who was an aspiring Olympic gymnast when he turned to ballet...
...assorted spear-carriers. The play's moral-that the legitimate theater is devoted to the true and beautiful and Hollywood to the cheap and shoddy-is not only a dubious one (especially in the light of this year's Broadway scatology), but seemed to come with poor grace from television-where the play was regularly interrupted for hard-selling commercials by Westinghouse. Diana Lynn was somewhat characterless as the dedicated girl who spurns Hollywood's gold; Peggy Ann Garner shone briefly as the disappointed actress who tries suicide but (in TV's version of the play...
...Best actress: Grace Kelly, for her role as the sad-mouthed wife of the down-and-out actor in The Country Girl...
Suddenly grave and well-behaved, Marlon Brando left off his blue jeans, put on a well-pressed dinner jacket, arrived at Hollywood's Pantages Theater right on time, amiably curled his lip at TV cameras. After the show, the reformation seemed complete: Oscar Winner Brando obligingly bussed Grace Kelly's porcelain cheek for the benefit of fans and photographers...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...