Word: maureene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous," said Movie Star Jane Wyman, wringing her program in San Diego's Off Broadway Theater. The former wife of California Governor Ronald Reagan was waiting for the curtain to go up on the musical Guys and Dolls, starring Daughter Maureen Reagan in the most exciting part she has had in her four-year acting career: Adelaide, the nightclub entertainer and perennial fiancée of Gambler Nathan Detroit. In four pairs of eyelashes and a fluffy blonde wig, Maureen drew guffaws and catcalls in her bumping and grinding A Bushel and a Peck number, but the theater critic...
...make ends meet on his modest annual salary of about $5,000. She suggested that they "go to the Russians." Whereupon he wrote out a note stating his name, rank and naval assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave him $1,200 as an initial payment, as well as instructions to photograph "anything of interest." Using his security clearance to gain access to secret...
After the trial, Maureen was by turns contrite, defiant and apologetic, with an unending supply of startling statements about the affair for newsmen. "My husband was an idiot to give himself up," she told the Daily Mail. She also declared that "I was the one who passed on information through the dead drops. I shall never know why I was not charged." Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions also was puzzled, and ordered an investigation. At week's end Maureen Bingham was charged under the Official Secrets Act and released on $1,200 bail...
...class revival that is likely to attract rapt audiences. If that happens, it will not prove that in 20 years Odets has grown in stature, but only that people tend to remain, somewhat endearingly, the same. Jason Robards is the alcoholic ex-matinee idol trying to make a comeback, Maureen Stapleton is the wife to whom he clings, and George Grizzard is the young director with a shark-toothed hunger for fame...
...casting is perfect. Robards gives a performance for the theatrical memory book: vain, vulnerable, self-pitying, playful, hung over, a deposed Richard II of the Great White Way who wins back his crown. Grizzard is the perfect foil, an edgy Broadway Bolingbroke with a rapier for a tongue. Unfortunately, Maureen Stapleton still seems to be playing The Gingerbread Lady. She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be, and her matronly appearance short-circuits what should be an electrically charged love interest between her and Grizzard. Nonetheless she is all theater, and-bless...