Page’s bold Brings Ger y to Broadway in Sweet Bird of Youth
Geraldine Page delivers a brassy dramatic turn as the aging movie queen Princess Parmazoglu in Sweet Bird of Youth with Paul Newman. The Cleveland-born star says her voice isn’t new, just dusted off, and cites Williams and Picasso as lyric observers of life. Page, 34, notes Shakespearean ambitions loom for future roles as she breaks from typecasting.
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Gerry
Princess Parmezoglu
Miss Page
Paul Newman
Elia Kazan
Mary Pickford
Pola Negri
Clara Bow
Norma Talmadge
Tennessee Williams
Williams
Picasso
Brothers Convince The Moguls By Denis And Terry Sanders
Hollywood figures Denis and Terry Sanders, UCLA graduates, write and direct their own films. Their debut crime drama Crime and Punishment USA cost 100000 and impressed MGM officials, leading to a five year pact to produce a film annually. They plan The Subterraneans as their next project.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Denis
Terry Sanders
Terry
Denis Terry
the Sanders
UCLA
Venice
Noes
Waladed
Dostoevski
Russia
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
U.S.A
MGM
Jack Kerouac
Attorneys Offer To Defend Beauty Titlist
In Littleton Colorado attorneys from five states offered to defend Dixie Ann Gottfried a 30 year old former beauty queen charged with armed robbery. The case stems from a drugstore raid in Arapahoe County where 131 dollars in cash and narcotics were taken. Arraignment is set for next Tuesday near Centennial Racetrack where she was Miss Colorado Jaycee last July. Her husband William Gottfried is serving a sentence in an Illinois prison.
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Littleton, Colo
Dixie Ann Gottfried
Arapahoe County
Harold Harrison
Gottfried
Bill Maraggos
Baton Rouge
Chicago
New York City
Louisville
Oklahoma City
Denver
Maraggos
William D. Gottfried
Ilinois
Ekberg divorce tale cites jealous husband and hospital jitters
Anita Ekberg testifies that husband Anthony Steel was jealous to the point she needed hospitalization for jitters. She was granted a divorce, with Steel not contesting and not appearing in court. The couple, married May 22 1956 in Florence, separated January 15, had no children.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Anita Ekberg
Anthony Steel
Miss Ekberg
Steel
Florence
Italy
Agent Turns To Archeology Instead Of Hollywood
Hollywood veteran Phil Berg, once an agent for stars and founder of a Sunset Boulevard estate, abandoned the film business after World War II to pursue archaeology. Each January he and Leila Hyams journey with a mobile camp and archaeologists to dig in Mexico, Greece, Mesopotamia, or Egypt, funding much of the expeditions with Berg’s own contribution while discoveries go to scholars and origin nations. Poison ivy’s waxy fruit is noted as a food source for over 50 bird species.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Phil Berg
Wark Berg
Leila Hyams
Sunset Blvd
Ed Pauley
Bert Allenberg
Berg
Loretta Young
Frank Capra
Clark Gable
New York
Metropolitan Museum
Leila
Mexico
Greece
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Gordon MacRae Reinvents Image For Bigger Year
Gordon MacRae's 1960s comeback hinges on teen appeal after his daughter Meredith mocked his squeaky clean image. He releases The Secret, selling 500000 copies in a month, revamps nightclub act, and locks higher fees. He plans bolder movie roles with guts and new stylistic edge.
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James Bacon
Motion Picture Writer _ HOLLYWOOD
Gordon MacRae
Dean Martin
Gordon
Dino
Meredith
MacRae
Oscar Hammerstein II
New York
Stevens
Sheila
Actor Steven Marlo Says He Portrayed Brando In One Eyed Jacks
Hollywood reports actor Steven Marlo, who starred in One Eyed Jacks, explains he was hired to imitate Marlon Brando because Brando directed the film. In rehearsals Marlo performed Brando like scenes and dialogue.
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Hollywood
Steven Marlo
Marlon Brando
Marlo
Bran
Brando collaboration fuels actor's onstage at Teaneck
An actor recalls Marlon Brando pushing for a near rehearsal like approach. He admits his ego nearly stopped him yet valued the chance to learn from Brando, noting any actor would pay to watch him work daily.
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Marlon
Marlo
Brando
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