Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antigone was given a striking, modern-day adaptation by Worthington Miner on NBC's experiment-happy Kaiser Aluminum Hour. As Creon, Claude Rains was a fine old despot, and once even squeezed out a real tear. But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan. In the title role of the girl trying to bury her brother, Italian-born Marisa was lovely to look at, but she spoke as if she were still lying around the Roman ruins with Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, with a studio elocution...
...film's biggest surprise is Debbie Reynolds. Scrubbed of her starlet enamel, she emerges as an engaging young girl with Actors' Studio overtones-a Hollywood butterfly turned into an authentic urban grub...
Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan...
...Jubal runs away, until he finds Ernest Borgnine, the friendly ranchowner who looks like a Bronx butcher. After some preliminary bronc-busting, Borgnine gets to like Jubal (Glenn Ford)--"I trust you, Jubal"--and the trouble begins. It seems that Borgnine's wife, some starlet with a wavering English accent, also thinks she'd like to trust Jubal...
...when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells for her and Billy, 56. Thrice-wed Comic George Jessel, 57, warily croaked that he has "an affectionate little ring" for unstarred Starlet Joan Tyler's engagement finger. Quipped Georgie: "It's not modern to say one is engaged...