Word: role
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...libel suit against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...
...whole production-including Horace Armistead's sets and Robert Lewis' staging-has been done with style. Though an effective Regina in her first serious Broadway role, Jane Pickens, with perhaps the least vocal right, leaves the most determinedly operatic impression. More memorable are Brenda Lewis' overall performance as the pathetic Birdie and Newcomer Russell Nype's comic charm as the loathsome...
Frederick H. Gwynne '50 has been assigned to the role of sheriff, while Kerr R. Lyne '52 and Peter D. Dibble will play the owners of a movie theater in the story of an embryonic stock company...
Valpey is also seeking someone to take over Walsh's role as extra point kicker. He had Fred Ravreby and John White practicing place kicks yesterday. The coach still was not sure yesterday whether Chief Bender or Don Cass would be able to play Saturday against Brown...
Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...