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DIED. VERA ZORINA, 86, star ballerina turned Hollywood actress of the 1930s and '40s; in Santa Fe, N.M. Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, she was married for eight years to George Balanchine, who choreographed her performances as a sultry nymph in the 1938 film The Goldwyn Follies, the angel in the Broadway musical I Married an Angel and the lead muse in his 1943 ballet, Apollo...
...East German actor who could play Alex but failed. He then interviewed Brühl and knew he had the right man. Brühl, from Cologne, spent eight weeks in intensive training to master the East Berlin accent. His gullible mother is played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake...
...when moviegoing was a family adventure, young actors ruled. Rooney was the top box-office draw in America, and Garland sent adults and kids over the rainbow. Teen soprano Deanna Durbin was, at 14, the world's highest paid actress. At the same age, Bonita Granville had her own series: the Nancy Drew films. Our Gang and the Dead End Kids filled out the program...
...camera pans out on actress Thora Birch, seated in what is supposed to be a Harvard classroom. The end music plays as a message appears on the screen: “Elizabeth Murray left Harvard in the Spring of 2003. She continues to pursue her college education...
...steals the comic scenes from both of them with her commanding portrayal of the wench Maria. Oatey’s Maria is playful and clever, sassy and smart and always commands the stage even when she’s just in the background reacting with bemused facial expressions. The actress does double duty, as she also plays Sebastian...