Word: operactress
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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While hiring his talent in Manhattan, Director Golterman came across the most newsworthy member of his troupe-Helen Gahagan, who played the part of the hard-to-awaken operactress in David Belasco's last production, Tonight or Never and married Melvyn Douglas, her leading man (TIME, April 12). On the evening her play closed she met Director Golterman, expressed a wish to make her U. S. début in his company. In 15 min. a contract was drawn up and she announced: "I am happy to make my American début in Ohio because my grandmother...
White-haired, 49-year-old, onetime Operactress Geraldine Farrar sang for the first time over the radio (NBC network for Packard...
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