Tag: Orson Welles

October 22, 2013 /

She started her career at 16 when she auditioned for, and joined, Katherine Dunham’s dance troupe. This babies — is poise. Hope you have a perfectly wonderful day.

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January 7, 2013 /

My grandmother told me a story long ago of taking the train to New York City to see Katherine Cornell and Basil Rathbone in “Romeo and Juliet”: The first time he played Romeo, Rathbone was twenty-one – which I think would have been around 1913. In 1934 Basil would have…