The producer, Walter Wanger, invited her to a cocktail party where she met Charlie Chaplin, recently married to Lita Grey. The two hit it off and had a two-month affair. "The Show-Off" was her fifth movie for Paramount, exhibiting a unique screen presence like no other actress had done...
BDC seems to have made literary alliances, first with Stieglitz, who dropped him however, and then with the playwright Eugene O’Neill, who wrote an introduction to Casseres’s book, Anathema! Litanies Of Negation (1925, Gotham Book Mark). BdC also wrote a short polemic about H. L. Mencke...
Lucy Prebble’s Messy WomenThe playwright onSuccessionfan theories, her characters’ possible mental-health diagnoses, and if we’ll ever get another season ofI Hate Suzie. ByEmily Gould Sponsor Story Women and Families Deserve More Than Policies That Don’t DeliverWhat happens when the “village...
After the war, however, it’s clear that she married again (a Royal Navy captain), had a son, to whom the book is dedicated, settled in England, and became a biographer and playwright. She died in 2007 at the age of 95. I Never Kissed Paris Goodbye is as insubstantial as an éclai...
The Shaw Festival, situated in Ontario, Canada, has been motivated from the life and works of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. The festival started in 1962, with its first permanent home, the Festival Theatre, starting in 1973. In the beginning, that the repertory theater brought acclaim ...
“Word Salad” is too genteel to describe this BS…. ‘The Homelessness Response Action Plan creates new governance and accountability structures to allow decision-makers to set goals, objectives and the budgets needed to achieve outcomes. It creates a co-governance model in the Steering and Over...
We were shooting a cocktail party in this very elegant town house, and my job was to be one of the elegant ladies eating caviar. So we start to shoot and he yells, “Cut! What kind of caviar is that?” And Mike comes up and he looks at it and he says, “This isn’t good eno...
suggests that she stayed and became involved with the Resistance. After the war, however, it’s clear that she married again (a Royal Navy captain), had a son, to whom the book is dedicated, settled in England, and became a biographer and playwright. She died in 2007 at the age of ...
Isabel Boltonfloats through the letters and memoirs of other writers like a ghost. “Isabel Bolton was there,” the poet Louise Bogan wrote May Sarton about a cocktail party in 1954: “A strange and rather pathetic figure, who is resigning herself to gradual blindness.” Edward Field recalls...