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11 Wilton Row,
London. SW1.
20th June, 1977
Radie darling,
Your letter of May
21st - via Connaught Hotel - reached
me in Norwich! We open June
23rd and you arrive 24th. So
please let me know WHEN you
want to come (and IF!) Call
255-0521, Annie Howard will take the
message if I am not at home.
Love
Deborah
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VARIETY
Radie Harris
Doug Galloway
Feb 28th, 2001
Longtime entertainment journalist Radie Harris, who spent a half-century
chronicling show business for the Hollywood Reporter and broadcasting Broadway tidbits for CBS direct from Sardi's,
died Thursday at the Actors Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, N.J. She was 96.
Although she wrote about show business from
both the East and West coasts. Harris spent most of her career based in New York City. Early in her career, she was a fixture
on CBS radio, often broadcasting from the famous New York City theater-row restaurant Sardi's or from Hollywood's Roosevelt
Hotel.
From 1940 until the early 1990s she wrote the "Broadway Ballyhoo" column for the Hollywood Reporter from an office
in midtown Manhattan.
She is also credited with being one of the originators of the stage Door Canteen, Broadway's counterpart
to the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.
Laurence Olivier once said of Harris, "In one of the toughest rackets
in the world, Radie has managed to keep her integrity and femininity intact."
Harris was on the executive board of the
American Theatre Wing and was on the nominating committee for the Tonys.
She was honored in 1982 by the Publicists
Guild of America with a special Citation of Merit in recognition of her service to the entertainment industry through her
column.
She is survived by two nieces.
DREAM WIFE (M-G-M) 1953
After making this dreary comody, Grant retired
from film-making. Here he played an American businessman who became interested in an Wastern princess, Betta St. John, who
believed in satisfying the every whim of her man, but found there was more to be said for the American career girl, Deborah
Kerr, who is chaperoning the princess on her American goodwill tour.
BALLERINA SUES 20th
FOR 'KING & I' SLIGHT
Ballerina Gemze De Lappe filed suit in New York Supreme
Court last week against 20th-Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck, Charles Brackett, and the Roxy Theatre charging that she did not receive
proper credit in "The King and I."
Through her attorney, Barry S. Cohen, the dancer alleges
that the producers "negligently, willfully and maliciously" refrained from giving her "the proper and appropriate credit due
her by virtue of her having created and performed the role of King Simon of Legree" in "The King and I." Instead Miss De Lappe
claims, they credited the role to a dancer who did not perform it. In the picture, the ballerina recreated the role she originated
in the Broadway production.
from VARIETY page 2
Wednesday, December 5th, 1956
UPDATED
Wednesday, June
10th, 2009
Deborah Kerr
BY
Robert Mitchum
In September of 1956, I arrived in Tobago, an island in the Southern Caribbean,
to begin filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, directed by John Huston. Upon meeting Miss Kerr, I was impressed by her chaste
and genteel demeanor, an attitude eminently suited to the saintly character she portrayed. made touchingly mortal by a few
freckles.
The ensuing period of our association revealed many more delightful aspects
of this splendid lady, and began the rapid development of an admiration and friendship for her that I shall treasure always.
She is warmly human and sympathetic, and possessed of a humor that ranged
from the subtle to the downright wicked.
When some Hollywood organization, charged with monitoring morality, became
belatedly alarmed at the perils of pairing a nun and a marine on a desert island and sent a representative to check on our
image of propriety, Mr. Huston planned a little surprise.
We contrived a scene wherein Sister Angela overcomes the suppression of
her base animal urges and, panting and clutching, throws herself on Mr. Allison in a lustful frenzy. With no film in the camera,
we "shot" the scene for our guest, who stood agape and immobilized in shock as John quietly said, "Cut."
Huston then turned to the stunned Mr. Grizzard and said, "You should have
seen it before we cleaned it up."
There was a small Catholic church on the island and the Sisters attached
to it were invited to see the rushes when they were shown. Deborah, always mindful of their presence, strived to maintain
an on-camera deportment that would earn their approval. However, in one scene, in which she was paddling the rubber raft,
her composure cracked.
Using a palm frond as a paddle, she was stroking away furiously, with
Mr. Huston's voice from the camera boat urging her on to even greater effort. "Even harder, honey," he was saying, "Paddle
even harder." With one desperate surge of energy, the paddle snapped in two. Holding up her bloodied hands, she looked straight
into the camera and said, "That'll show you how effing hard I'm paddling, John!"
The Deborah Kerr Curtain Call Playhouse
A Fellowship League Foundation
For the Performing Arts
Her Legend Her Life and Motion Picture Career
of the Woman all Women want to be - the charming
Deborah Kerr
To
Your Health!
Never Underestimate
Your Need for
Water
The Forgotten Nutrient
Water is so abundant, available and inexpensive
yet it's often taken for granted. It is the forgotten nutrient although it ranks in importance right up there along with vitamins,
minerals, protein, carbohydrate and fat. Just by living, breathing, perspiring and going to the bathroom you can lose between
two and three quarts of water daily, which need to be repaced. Each day drink six to eight glasses of fluids like tap or bottled
water, milk and juice.
Also eat foods with a high water content, such as fruits and vegetables.
Fluid intake is especially important for older adults - you better listen to me. If you lose too much water without replacing
it, you can become dehydrated.
You might faint or feel dizzy.
Here are some ways
water works in
your body:
* Carries
nutrients to cells and carries waste products away. Water is the body's transportation system.
* Surrounds and protects joint and organs
such as kidneys from shock or injury.
* Keeps the digestive tract working and the urine clear.
* Helps maintain body temperature.
Drink
Before
You're Thirsty!
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