Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...
...Hollywood, where no approaching stork goes long undetected by the heir-spotting magpies, Actor Pau! Newman and his Oscar-winning wife Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) admitted it was true: face number three will arrive in April...
Before a man could say "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," there was Ernie wearing a set of tails like the headwaiter at Romanoff's, up there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked...
Divorced. Ernest Borgnine (real name: Ermes Effron Borgnine), 41, Oscar-winning (Marty) cinemactor; by Rhoda Kemins Borgnine, 34; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif, (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Early during World War II, one of the most remarkable writers ever to emigrate to the U.S. arrived in New York from France. Vladimir Nabokov was a stateless Russian. Unlike Oscar Wilde, who earlier at the same port said he had nothing to declare but his genius, Nabokov declared a set of boxing gloves. Two customs inspectors each donned a pair, sparred a friendly round and chalked everything O.K. But it was Nabokov who really won that round, for he smuggled into the country a greater and more scandalous talent than Wilde...