Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, russet-haired, regal of bearing, Ethel spoke to all ages. Her elders admired her art; her pre-World War I contemporaries copied her manner of speech, the way she walked, even the proud tilt of her head.. She belonged not to Broadway or to Hollywood, but to the country. For Ethel Barrymore became a star in an era when no star stayed put. A few months in Manhattan were always followed by tours to other cities-and all were equally important...
...Hollywood held small charm for her-"It looks, it feels, as if it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peep-show man." But movies were there to be tried, so she tried them. Perhaps the most intriguing of her films was the only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences...
...baseball fan ("I might have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore...
...girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have been in Ben Hur." ¶Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl...
...Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's masterpieces...