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...accustomed to brass bands. Her misery was less the price of living up to an image too big for her than living down the reflections of her own abysmal past and her inability to share the lessons it taught her. In a sense, Marilyn Monroe never existed, as Lee Strasberg, her drama coach, noted in his eulogy: "I have no words to describe the myth and the legend. I did not know this Marilyn Monroe...
...response "to the most elemental part of the human being near her, his propensity for hurting or helping, and he is immediately stimulated by the fact that he is really being looked at." On the screen, her genius for humanity was transparent yet obscure; at the funeral, Strasberg called it "wistfulness, radiance and yearning...
...Strasberg once asked him who his favorite actor was. "I hesitated," Peter remembers, "and said. 'A cross between Laurence Olivier and Lee J. Cobb.' If he asked me that today. I'd say my father. I think my father is the best actor I've ever seen...
After four years as a sonar man in the Navy, Bobby approached Broadway. Under the wing of his brother, Actor Richard Morse, his career developed quickly, with the usual tune-ups: American Theater Wing, classes with Lee Strasberg, etc. And he has calmed down considerably now that he is a $1,750-a-week star. Last April he married Carole D'Andrea, an actress-dancer who had a supporting role in West Side Story, and their first child is due in December. With the success of How to Succeed, Morse has finally developed confidence in himself, and the brat...
Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business...