Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough evening performances like Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake she rarely misses the ritual of morning class, where she stretches at the bar like the other dancers. She is completely unaffected-a quality which helps set the atmosphere backstage. Explains Frederick Ashton: "When the prima ballerina doesn't put on airs, obviously anyone else trying to would only look ludicrous...
...deaf . . . ready to undergo any treatment . . . willing to put myself and my body at your disposal . . . this on the understanding that anything that might happen to me, even death, would be my own responsibility...
...Variety reported that a mid-October slump put U.S. cinemansion receipts off about 7% from last year, interrupting the gradual upturn evident since last spring...
...Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive job of starting all over again with a new star, Betty Hutton. Judy apologized for her behavior and then entered a Boston hospital for a rest cure. Among other things, she needed to put on some weight...
...leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything...