Word: played
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...Fight. During the unrestrained violence of the dinner-table combat between Anne and Patty, the play reaches its peak-in one of the most nerve-shattering scenes ever acted on Broadway. Ordering the Kellers out of the room, Annie flails into the heroic task of teaching wild young Helen the rudiments of table manners. Food and silverware explode across the room. Little Helen rushes to the door to pound out a plea for freedom. Annie promptly wrestles her back to her seat. Again and again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near...
...part in the TV version of The Goldbergs. Danger, Suspense, and other CBS shows began to use "Anne Marno," as she then called herself. Her acting reputation grew. In his files, TV Director Franklin Schaffner still keeps a card for Anne Marno with the coded notation: CDXX. Translation: can play comedy, or drama, is excellent actress...
...church annulment and failed; Martin then got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. Anne no longer enjoyed the life of a Hollywood bachelor girl. "One can always be popular with the boys," she says, "but the rules are different in Hollywood than The Bronx. Out there you play for keeps...
...wanted to develop my acting, not my body." When TV Actor Richard Basehart recommended Anne to Producer Fred Coe as an ideal Gittel for Two for the Seesaw, Anne was only too anxious to try. She was going East for a sister's wedding anyway; she read the play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John...