Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother, a Viennese actress, daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family of four children. Maria was the eldest, and in the nursery dramas of that stage-struck house, she insisted that she must play the Virgin Mary (Die Jungfrau Maria). She was a "sweet little blonde girl," the neighbors recall, "always happy and smiling." At six, she made her first public appearance, as the star of a drama entitled The Princess Searching for a Good Human Being, and she brought down the house...
Scene Stealer. It happened suddenly. A friend of mother's came looking for a girl to play a small part in a picture (Steinbruch) that he was making. When he saw Maria he asked her to read a minor role; when he heard her read, he offered her the main part. The picture was a hit, and papa gave in; she enrolled at Zurich's School of Theatrical Arts. "She worked like the devil," says one of her instructors. Within a few months she was starring in a stage version of the film she had made. The critics...
...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...
...actor who was there, "it was as if the sun had come out. and a lot of stars looked suddenly pretty dim." Producer Pandro Berman (who had just lost Marilyn Monroe for the part of Grushenka, and could not be sure that Warner Bros, would let Carroll Baker play it), took one startled look at Maria and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." After the party, Maria happened to meet Actor Brynner in the lobby of her hotel. He took one startled look and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka...
Contestant Harth tossed off the most brilliant sections of the concerto in true virtuoso fashion. Contestant Fain showed brilliant technique, warmth and sincerity, though there seemed to be something constrained about her playing. Harth, on the other hand, got himself into trouble with some of the judges by playing too freely. When the vote was counted (Oistrakh giving both contestants identical, maximum scores), Violinist Fain nosed out Violinist Harth by 409 to 406 points. Some of the Western judges were wroth, argued that Louisville's Harth would have won but for open political partiality. At week...