Word: widower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jan Kiepura, 62, Polish tenor, whose dashing good looks and liquid voice took him to all the leading European opera houses, then to Hollywood, the Met and finally Broadway musical comedy, where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack...
BEVERLY, MASS. North Shore Music Theater: The Merry Widow, through...
...campus youngsters, are fired with an eagerness to expand their interests, refine longtime hobbies, or even start new careers. Mrs. Ellner, 68, a onetime Ziegfeld Follies star still proud that "my legs were insured for $50,000," is studying sociology, expects to work with delinquent girls. A widow, she decided that "the show must go on," concedes that "there will never be any more stage-door Johnnies for me-but there won't be any rocking chairs either." She dramatizes the point by pressing her palms flat on the floor without bending her knees...
...stunning, emotionally stumbling film about a woman mesmerized by the memory of her late husband, a jaunty movie stunt man who was killed while dancing through a battlefield set where a prop man's shell misfired. One Sunday at the Deauville school where their young children board, the widow (Anouk Aimée) meets a handsome widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a racing driver whose wife impulsively committed suicide, thinking that he had been killed in a crash at Le Mans...
...Widow and widower fall in love, in a way, although flashback memories of the dead stunt man keep popping up when Anouk and Jean-Louis go to bed for the first time. Will she forget her old love for the sake of the new? Trying to answer the question, Director Claude Lelouch, 28, composes some stylish scenes and tosses in enough cinematic tricks borrowed from older New Wave directors-abrupt switches from black-and-white to color, for example-to have won this year's Cannes Festival Grand Prix. But his does-she-or-doesn't-she story...