Word: waif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue eyes can blink in puppy-dog innocence or wink in complicity with all the world. Perhaps her most typical expression is that of a pixy hooked on happy pills, but she can also look like a small kitten that has just swallowed a very large canary, a waif who has lost her bus ticket home, a country girl trying to act like a vamp despite her wholesome apple cheeks...
...Watching." Mother Rose Hovick was a divorcee and frustrated actress who hustled her daughter June to Hollywood at the" age of three, landed her in Our Gang comedies as the hungry-looking waif, got her to weep in the sad scenes by whispering, "Darling, your dog has just been run over." When Dainty June was four, Mother whipped up a vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. A charming if disorderly waif clings to the edge of her martini glass to keep from drowning in Manhattan...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. A charming if disorderly waif clings to the edge of her martini glass to keep from drowning in Manhattan...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Broadway's wonderful waif, Julie Harris, in Johnny Belinda, the trying tale of a lovely deaf mute involved with both love and murder (in color...