Word: actress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, Sir Laurence Olivier's production of the play, starring his wife Vivien Leigh, opened in the West End and was greeted by all-night queues a block long. The critics sang the praises of Actress Leigh and Director Olivier, but gave Williams' script a mixed chorus of grudging praise and abuse. Samples: "I feel as if I had crawled through a garbage heap" . . . "Blatant, crude...
...news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple, and we never thought SHE'd do this to us . . . So here's the Free Press− 119 years old, mind you−compromised by a little Hollywood cutie. We ain't ever going to trust an actress again...
...Actress Claire Luce, now rehearsing with the Brattle Theater Company, is scared about $5000 and excited about...
Miss Luce claimed last night that a "wild maniac" had called her up and demanded $5000 "or you won't appear on opening night." The actress, who opens Wednesday night in Shaw's. "The Millionairess," said she received the call Thursnight night and was too frightened to attend rehearsal Friday...
...Miss Luce is rehearsing in a bank vault this morning with the money at her side, "to see what a millionairess would feel like." The actress is due to arrive at the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, 40 Water Street...