Word: actress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piquant and beautiful film actress, Corinne Luchaire had grown up among the "respectable" Nazis that frequented Banker von Schroeder's mansion. There, too, she had met Otto Abetz. Politically, Otto was faithless to France; personally, he was faithless to his wife Suzanne and the son that symbolized their pre-Nazi ideal. Before he was expelled from France in 1939, Otto Abetz made 17-year-old Corinne Luchaire his mistress...
...Parisian rip who bawls out this ditty, 70-year-old stage & screen Actress Ethel Grimes does a vigorous job that comes nearest to giving the show the comedy it badly needs. The young people in the cast-Mary McCarty, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Albert-are all pleasant enough, but their roles are definitely on the stale side. What does most to relieve the sameness and tameness of Miss Liberty are Jerome Robbins' gay, rowdy dances. They are much the best thing in the show...
...disappointed actress committed suicide...
...Girl of cinema's flapper era, better known to a later generation as radio's first "Mrs. Hush," would come out of retirement, briefly, for a stage appearance. The show: a Santa Fe straw-hat production of Personal Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After the show, she would hurry...
Despite the low-keyed lighting and some ominous shots of stormy Florida coast, nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...