Word: ratoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Category. She was still learning (with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse) when 20th Century-Fox called her to test for a role in a film called Taxi. Dressed in an old skirt and a man's shirt on her way to class, "I walked into Gregory Ratoff's office, and he threw up his arms and screamed, 'She's perfect.' In all my life, no one has ever said, 'You are perfect.' People have been confused about my type, but they agreed on one thing: I was in the "too" category...
Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). With Irene Dunne, Vincent Price, Gregory Ratoff...
...Clarion Call is an amusing study in pitch black and snow white, with Richard Wildmark slamming women and manhandling kittens with finesse and obvious relish. In The Last Leaf, Gregory Ratoff is the idealistic but frustrated abstractionist, born twenty years too soon; here, the part happily becomes more Ratoff than O. Henry...
...popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
...Information Please veterans recovered their sprightly aplomb when the second show rolled around this week (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Adams and Kieran were back in pre-TV form, and Actor-Producer Gregory Ratoff as guest expert, a heavy hunk of a man with a rich, thick Russian accent, was the life of the show ("Theese ees my telewision debut, and all my friends are vatching, I shouldn't be dumb"). Sprinkling his comments with warm humor, he managed to answer a number of questions-mostly musical-that stumped his colleagues cold. For Information Please fans, it was beginning...