Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love letters (as he also did to Actress Ellen Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk. For her he wrote Pygmalion. Against her, even when she tacked on her own ending to the play, he was powerless. When Beatrice Stella Campbell died at 75 last week, with her ended Shaw's second famed platonic love affair...
Died. Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Tanner), 75, great and temperamental actress (her biggest hits: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Pygmalion) ; in Pau, France...
Last week Joan Fontaine became Joan Fontaine. U. S. cinemaddicts who saw Rebecca did not recognize Cinemactress Fontaine at first as gracious, wistful, haunting Mrs. de Winter. When they did, hats went way off to Director Hitchcock's Pygmalion stunt...
...wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including two big, sombre Biblical works, Le Roi David and Judith. Among 20-odd cinema scores he did before Harvest, best-known in the U. S. were Mayerling and Pygmalion...