Word: vanessa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a chest thump and ape warble, Tarzan will start vine-swinging from the lianas for the 26th time next week. In Tarzan and the Slave Girl, Producer Sol Lesser is giving the tenth and current Tarzan (Lex Barker) a new mate-probably Vanessa Brown. But the script will hold close to the tried & true line that has enchanted three decades of romantics and grossed around $3,000,000 a picture. Tarzan has been the most durable and successful series in movie history...
...relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...
...story's end was more melodramatic, more Elizabethan, than anything that she or her contemporaries wrote. The daughter of the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, with James Russell Lowell for her godfather (she received no religious instruction), with Hardy, Ruskin and Gosse for family visitors and her sister Vanessa for companionship, she was educated at home, too delicate a child to stand normal schooling. Her mother died when she was 13, her father when she was 22. She wrote her first book, The Voyage Out, in 1906 when she was 25, but did not publish it until...
...isolated cottage, Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...