Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain and the Continent 47. A British film, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, had London film critics in a tizzy over its portrayal of: 1. Wartime life in Britain...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...
Daughter of a Scottish civil engineer, Moira had her first dancing lessons at six in Southern Rhodesia from a former member of Diaghilev's famed company. Two years ago she made her first big London hit as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty...
...cheery studio on London's Tite Street, he worked doggedly at his portraits, muttering behind his easel when things didn't work out the way he wanted, "Gainsborough would have done it! ... Gainsborough would have done it." Sometimes he held his sitters' attention by painting his own nose red or pretending to eat his cigar...
Lloyd C. Douglas' continuous bestseller, The Robe (about early Christians in ancient Rome), was again announced for production; Maxwell Anderson would write the script; Gregory Peck would surely play the lead. In London, Producer Anthony Havelock-Allan (Great Expectations') thought of filming the life of St. Paul. Both Greta Garbo and Lana Turner were reportedly under serious consideration for Madame Bovary...