Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philip Yordan as the story of a Pennsylvania Polish family, the play became a resounding Broadway hit five years ago after it had been adapted for an all-Negro cast by Producer Harry Wagstaff Gribble. The part of Anna, a generous, warmhearted girl gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin-deep beauty whose chief acting prop is a flirtatious wink...
...HILDA K. FINDLEY...
...LAND AND THE WELL (243 pp.)-Hilda Wernher, with Huthi Singh-John...
Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...
Tragic Destiny was not likely to upset any literary reputations. The story of the demimondaine who sparked the Paraguayan Napoleon to dreams of empire and simultaneous war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil had been better and more fully told in English (William E. Barrett: Woman on Horseback). But Hildas thin volume was good reading and it might sell to Mexican movies. If it did, Hilda the actress would undoubtedly want to go with...