Word: wanda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
With all this, the acting was very good. Helen Drohocka, as the phlegmatic women doctor, and Wanda Bertowna, as the pretty interpreter, led the east. But the picture was a group effort, as far as the acting went, and no single performance dwarfed any of the others. Certainly from the ranks of the Polish actors in this film will come some of the top artists in the foreign film business during the next few years...
...harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods her greetings and disappears into the dressing room...
...Married. Wanda Hendrix, 20, green-eyed, up & coming cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions); and Audie Murphy, 24, rookie cinemactor and World War II's most beribboned U.S. soldier (18 medals and decorations, plus the Medal of Honor); in Los Angeles...
Well, "Schuyler" gets the legacy but he falls in love with the girl who is supposed to be his sister (Wanda Hendrix). At this point the plot becomes confusing and I will leave it alone. The audience was laughing so hard I couldn't hear much anyway...