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Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...
...warmth, of life, and of real cinematic sensitiveness. Credit for its awkward grace is due in part to a round dozen of its little-known players, in part to its scripters and director and cameraman, but most of all to 40-year-old Producer Val Lewton, nephew of Alia Nazimova...
Cinemaudacities. As the year 1943 unwinds, these characters change and grow as they seldom get time to do in films. Miss Colbert greys perceptibly and learns to be a welder. An immigrant welder (Alia Nazimova) tells her that she embodies her own dearest dreams of America, Startling cinemaudacity: months after her husband is reported missing, Welder Colbert toys with the idea of accepting Mr. Gotten at last. Earlier Gotten seriously considers trying to seduce...
...merit of tone it did not have. It failed to make little scenes radiant or heartbreaking; it played for laughs; it turned minor roles into blatant character parts. Chekhov-lovers had seen a more poignant Cherry Orchard years ago, when Eva LeGallienne staged it and warm, volatile, Slavic Alia Nazimova played the central role...
Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore...