Word: marilynne
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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People who had always seen Maude Adams there before missed her terribly. They remembered what a quizzical Peter she was, how wistful, how shy, how genuinely joyous, how she tugged at your heartstrings and did all the little things "just right." This time, Marilynn Miller was there instead, ever so pretty ; light and bright and fair as a fairy. Happy, too - but that was just it. She was too happy, like a musical comedy girl. And she danced too well, too wisely...
Peter Pan?The U. S. had come to believe this fantasy of J. M. Barrie the exclusive privilege of Maude Adams. Some months ago, Charles B. Dillingham went to London with the photographs of 20 actresses. Examining them all carefully, Mr. Barrie selected Marilynn Miller, musical comedy star. She will desert the musical stage to pick up the torch abandoned by Miss Adams...
...Marilynn Miller, famed musical comedy player: "When he learned that James M. Barrie had selected me from among ten actresses submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite...