Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Marriages. In real life Father Dodd has performed some real movie marriages: Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller, William S. Hart and Winifred Westover, William Lasky and Margaret Lowe. He has also officiated at movie stars' funerals: Douglas Fairbanks, Marie Dressier, May Robson, John Gilbert, Owen Moore...
...acting is markedly superior to the general run of collegiate productions, with the Radcliffe girls adroitly putting their Harvard cousins into the background. Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, gives a well-polished performance as the sympathetic aunt, and Claire Pollack is much more than the comic family retainer. Marilyn Whisman in the title role, though inclined to be over-tragic in places, carries the role by her obvious sincerity. For Harvard, George Clay '43, makes the most of some comic lines, and Mendy Weisgal and Donald Gair, both '45, play the supporting role with conviction...
Pearl Pollack's characterization of the House-keeper afforded what were perhaps the most enjoyable moments of the play, but Leslie Paul in the less rewarding role of the Aunt gave a performance outstanding for its sustained restraint and subtlety of characterization. Marilyn Whisman was the third of the Radcliffe trio which took top honors for the evening. Her Rosita was less assured than the others' characterizations, but her main fault was in trying to read a third and dramatic dimension into a character left two-dimensional by the author...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...