Word: stokowskied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally pleasant cast are such well-known performers as Franchot Tone, Myron McCormick, Paula Laurence, Harold Lang, John Carradine. And with Irving Berlin's daughter Linda, Saroyan's ex-wife Carol Grace, and Stokowski's estranged wife Gloria Vanderbilt each playing a bit part, The Time of Your Life is the season's most glamorous bit-party...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
...years ago, Gloria's urge to stand in the spotlight on her own began to get the best of her-and Leopold as well. Last year, having tried a one-man show of her paintings without conspicuous success, she took a fling at acting in summer stock. Stokowski, who failed to attend her premiere, was notably noncommittal. "I am always hopeful." he said, "for the development of new talent." But last month, as Gloria's New York debut with Franchot Tone in a minor role in The Time of Your Life at the City Center theater was announced...
...Stokowski friends were frank to predict: "A breakup is inevitable. It's only a question of when and how." Last week they had their answer. Gloria moved out of the twelve-room Stokowski apartment and into the Ambassador Hotel. On the arm of Crooner Frank Sinatra, at the opening of a new Manhattan musical, Mme. Stokowska confirmed the news...
...these siren songs, Walt lent half an ear. Encouraged by Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, he made the biggest boner of his career: Fantasia. Its basic idea, to illustrate music with pictures, was depressing enough to anyone who loves either form of art. Its declared intention to bring "culture" to the "masses" turned out to be silly: it had nothing to do with culture, and the "masses" would have nothing to do with it. Fantasia has never earned back what it cost. Worse yet, though Walt learned a lesson from Fantasia, he learned the wrong one: mistaking for culture what...