Word: romola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale...
...which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with the faun in his most celebrated dance). He spent 21 years in a Swiss asylum, was moved to England in 1947 by devoted wife Romola, author of the frank, sympathetic, 1934 bestselling biography, Nijinsky. His own explanation of his fabulous leaps into the air: "You have just to go up and pause there a little...