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...disappeared to Ireland at 16 to bluff his way on to the Gate Theatre stage. His productions of an all-black 'voodoo' version of Macbeth in Harlem, and a Broadway production of Julius Caesar set in fascist Italy, had electrified the New York...

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...of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle. In 1938, Ms. Ford joined Welles' Mercury Theatre and made her Broadway debut that year in the Welles-directed revival of "Shoemakers' Holiday." She also appeared on Broadway in the 1938...

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...him to join his formative Mercury Theatre. During his time with the company, Mohr gained theatrical experience on the Broadway stage in The Petrified Forest and starred in Jean Christophe. He subsequently became a radio actor on such...

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...treatment in New York, said spokesman Andrew Freedman. Kitt's sultry, dusky voice and slinky, feral presence mesmerized audiences during her Broadway debut in 1945 in Carib Song. But her star first rose in Paris, where she was discovered...

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...with the aid of a small inheritance. Welles later reported that while on a walking and painting trip through Ireland, he strode into the Gate Theatre in Dublin and claimed he was a Broadway star. Gate manager Hilton Edwards later said he...

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...the rich and famous peppered her younger years. After garnering notice for singing "Monotonous" in the Broadway revue "New Faces of 1952," Kitt appeared in "Mrs. Patterson" in 1954-55. (Some references say she earned a Tony nomination for...

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...work as a model for photographers Cecil Beaton and Man Ray. In 1938, Ford joined Welles' Mercury Theatre group and made her Broadway debut the same year in Shoemaker's Holiday. She moved to Hollywood in 1941 and went on to appear in films...

In this article: Ruth Ford, Orson Welles, Mercury Theatre, New York, Tennessee Williams, Cecil Beaton, Edward Albee, The Woman Who Came Back, and Dinner at Eight

...in Alexandria, Virginia. Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, starring as C.K. Dexter Haven in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story as well as the 1953 production of Sabrina Fair. Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles,...

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...showbiz. His warm and distinct tone took him to Broadway and then to the young world of radio, where he became the voice for dozens of shows that are both snapshots from a golden age and reminders of how rich that age was. Roberts...

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