Word: walk-on
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...four of Bergman's women worked on the Cries set in apparent harmony. Besides Liv in one of the leading roles, Bergman's wife Ingrid was his assistant, his fourth wife Käbi Laretei played the piano for the sound track, and little Linn had a walk-on part. Since the parting Bergman has even grown to love the dog, which he keeps with...
Welles is the star, but the walk-on players-from Saroyan to Stravinsky, Hepburn to Hemingway, Cocteau to Kazan-are not bad. Houseman invites the reader to an opening-night party of the cultivated mind, and he is the perfect host. · T.E. Kalem
...Hollywood heavy for three decades; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. The son of an Irish whisky distiller, Donlevy joined General John Pershing's Mexican border expedition as a bugler when only 13, then lied about his age again to become a pilot in World War I. A walk-on part in a 1924 Broadway play led to larger roles and his eventual move to Hollywood in the mid-'30s. There he established the tough-guy image epitomized by his portrayal of the brutal sergeant in Beau Geste...
...rise high in show business-even so stratospheric a celebrity as Chaplin-and there comes an evening of the long knives. For Chaplin it came early and never seemed to lighten. After a series of affairs with leading, supporting, featured, walk-on and crowd-scene actresses, Chaplin took up with the adolescent Lita Grey. A relative of Lita's had news for her paramour: in California, dallying with a minor was statutory rape. Charlie and Lita were married in November 1924. She was his second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation...
...Junior Wells tunes better than Junior himself. One of Montgomery's most endearing qualities is an apparent willingness to permit virtually anyone to jam with the group. Two weeks ago at Jack's, he was joined by Bonnie Raitt on guitar and vocals, an unidentified conga player, and innumerable walk-on harpists and pianists. No one seemed to mind the rough edges to the music produced by this informality; in truth, the drunker and looser the Montgomery band gets, the better the show becomes for all concerned...