Word: kid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Poacher & Pro. At 35, Mankowitz has already put his characters into novels (Old Soldiers Never Die, A Kid for Two Farthings) and movies (The Bespoke Overcoat, Expresso Bongo). He has turned them loose in plays, short stories, poems, TV shows and news stories. He also finds time to serve as a successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach...
Somehow, the fresh and volatile Bancroft talent carries extra surprise, for the brief Bancroft career is a thunderous theatrical cliche. Even the name is a typical Hollywood banality: 28 years ago when she was born, Anne Bancroft was Anna Maria Italiano. She was the kid who scribbled on the back wall of her apartment house, "I want to be an actress," and who kept showing off for the handsome stranger whom she took...
...miracle of The Miracle Worker is that night after night, the militant kook from The Bronx and the tireless kid from Manhattan tenements re-create with consuming vitality the remarkable collaboration between blind child and half-blind adult that blossomed in Tuscumbia, Ala. three-quarters of a century ago. So successful are the two actresses that Author Gibson is convinced they transcend the bounds of mere acting. "I've always felt the curtain call was haunted," says Gibson. "A high percentage of the applause is for the people who really lived...
...Mamma knows that she only ordained the obvious. Her Anna Maria was born to entertain. "I was the personality kid," Anne remembers. "When I wasn't sick, I was singing. Even at school they took me from classroom to classroom; I could really put over a song. I put everything into it. I shook my shoulders, rolled my eyes and twitched. I was just a repulsive kid, I guess. I used to break up the class...
...20th Century-Fox screen-tested an aspiring actor named Doug Rogers, and Anne agreed to help him out by playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to Hollywood-on Anne's first plane ride. She had to see her daughter settled in a small Sunset Boulevard apartment before she felt it safe to return to Macy...