Word: granger
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...suited Hollywood's fondness for coming-of-age stories about the great and famous. In George Cukor's The Actress she played the teenage Ruth Gordon, desperate for Broadway acclaim; in The Young Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where she's a French maid with a crush on Napoleon, then a year later...
...Elmer Gantry she had fallen in love with the film's writer-director, Richard Brooks, whom she married after divorcing Granger. She took a couple years off when they had a daughter, Kate (she and Granger had a son, Tracy - both children named in honor of Simmons' friends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn); and when she was ready to return to films, her moment had passed. Her enduring glamour, and the tang she put into every line of dialogue, would have made her a welcome presence in sophisticated comedies, but nobody was writing them. Not yet 35, she had become...
...singing "Send in the Clowns," in the West End edition of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. She divorced Brooks in 1977, struggled with alcoholism in the '80s. She had summed up her two marriages by observing that "when I wanted to be a wife, Jimmy [Granger] would say, 'I just want you to be pretty.' And when I wanted to cook, Richard would say, 'Forget the cooking. You've been trained to act - so act!' " So act she kept doing, with skill and delicacy and diminished visibility...