Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statuette, known as a "silver lady," looked very much like a female Hollywood Oscar. The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...
Maggie did her best acting in Alfred Hitchcock's unforgettable The Lady Vanishes, but it was a forgettable film, The Wicked Lady, that set her on top of the heap. Maggie's current (and 25th) picture, I Know You ("Margaret, a member of the British Embassy staff in Rio de Janeiro, falls in love with a plausible rascal . . ."), is a fair sample of what she has been doing since Wicked Lady...
Most British stars of Margaret Lockwood's magnitude are fixed in contracts to J. Arthur Rank. Last week Rank's biggest rival, Sir Alexander Korda, made a major bid for star-power. He signed a deal with Hollywood's biggest independent, David O. Selznick, to produce made-in-England pictures with made-in-Hollywood stars...
...feminine leads, now evidently one of the company's strong points, are Margaret Mitchell as Phyllis, Denise Findlay as Iolanthe, and Elia Halman as the Fairy Queen. Miss Mitchell, seen before as Yum-Yum, has a delightfully crystal voice and an acting manner no less charming. Her eighteenth century makeup is excellent, and her innocent, pseudo-proper, very British diction in the spoken dialogue a special attraction of the evening. Miss Findlay is bewitching and demure as the 17-year old mother of the lad of 25, and Miss Halman perfect as the frightening but not really fierce Fairy Queen...
Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...