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...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, starring Edward G. Robinson, reportedly at his finest, as the discoverer of the cure for syphilis. Also Maria Ouspenskaya, who played the gypsy in The Wolf-Man. 7:30 p.m., channel...
Playing Hooky. Elaine, born in Philadelphia, is the daughter of Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin. She began by playing little boys in Yiddish plays, later quit high school in Los Angeles and studied acting with the late Maria Ouspenskaya. To eat, she picked up such odd jobs as private detective, spieler for a sidewalk photographer. Then she heard "you could go to the University of Chicago without going to high school...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...distraught heroine (Catherine McLeod) is a musically talented Trilby, dominated by her teacher, great Pianist Philip Dorn. With his mother (Mme. Ouspenskaya) as chaperone, they tour the world, lounging around between smashingly successful concerts in what must be the world's flossiest and most costly hotel accommodations. Pianist Philip Dorn is jealous of his talented pupil as a musician, but he never really sees her as a woman until after she has morosely gone off to marry her childhood sweetheart (William Carter...
This protracted wheedling of Beauty by what Beauty regarded as the Beast might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the wires with them. This was a task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman...