Critics held that she was a poor actress, a characteristic shared by most Italian singers of her time.
Or perhaps it really went wrong with the horrific Better Together TV campaign, in which a poor actress has to look as gormless as possible while explaining how she doesn't really understand politics, being only a humble wee lassie, and therefore she is going to vote "no" just in case her children get eaten by a bear.
The actress playing Juliet in the internal play proved to be a fine singer but a poor actress; she was replaced by Helena Scott.
Yes, you're reading those times right: almost two full minutes of vomit, most of it landing on some poor actress in a bit part.
As for the screenplay, it is littered with those archaic cries that reek of the stage ("What a fine evening!" "But what of that?"), and one poor actress even has to exclaim, "Don't speak!," like Dianne Wiest in "Bullets Over Broadway".
Also, that poor actress (Valeri Kimbro) had to film her outdoor scenes in a skirt, when it was about negative 10 degrees, so I'm sure she was probably sick for a few days as well.
During the test, the poor actress desperately tried to read the absurdly melodramatic script with lines like, "Wipe that smirk off your face, before I mash my goddamn shoe in it," and "…Or is it just the thrill of old, withered hands touching your naked, muscled flesh?
Let's hope he finds his feet soon, and doesn't oblige any more poor actresses to negotiate a steep-raked stage in four-inch stilettos.
"Those poor actresses will have been on a diet-and-exercise regime since nomination day, all with the aim of looking perfect in their chosen dress.
Not to talk about our poor actresses, the ones who don't usually do porn, but are serious stage stars who all of a sudden are treated like whores because of what they represent on the screen.
In 1950 Sherman made two films with Joan Crawford: The Damned Don't Cry!, which cast the actress as a poor woman whose dreams of wealth lead her to become a gangster's moll, and Harriet Craig, a solid remake of Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936), about a domineering woman who tries to control those around her, including her husband (Wendell Corey).
