Word: sullavan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect...
...Hundred Roles a Day. Joan Hackett is typical of a relatively new and relatively unnoticed phenomenon: the television-trained pro. Before television, actresses whose ambitions ran to serious acting-Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis-got their training in road companies, straw-hat theaters, or in Hollywood's now-all-but-vanished B pictures. Disdained by highbrows as inferior, ignored by serious critics in search of "specials," television nonetheless offers young actors a wonderfully flexible working stage and an audience millions of times greater than anything Ogunquit or Provincetown ever knew. There are a hun dred available roles...
...magicians who performed at birthday parties. A list of her classmates at the Brentwood Town and Country School read like a second-generation all-star cast: Lady* Jayne Seymour (Henry) Fonda, Tarquin (Laurence) Olivier, Maria (Gary) Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play about a convict's revolt in an Australian penal colony. More than a promising newcomer...
Beans & Peanut Butter. Yanked by her mother from progressive Brentwood ("when she discovered we were being taught to count with lima beans"), Brooke bounced back and forth between school and private tutors. After her divorce from Hayward, Margaret Sullavan moved to Connecticut, and Brooke went to a school unused to the Hollywood breed. Within six months after her arrival, Brooke recalls proudly, one teacher had a nervous breakdown. A little later Brooke was expelled from the Girl Scouts. Meanwhile, Mommy married Kenneth Wagg, then a director of Horlick's Malted Milk, and, insists Brooke, "we had nothing but malted...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Devil Makes Sunday," a story of rebellion in an island penal colony near Australia, serves to introduce Actress Brooke Hayward, 23-year-old daughter of the late Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward...