Nazimova

Today's Hollywood looks pretty anemic, as Maria Montez shimmers like a snake in Cobra Woman, Gloria Swanson enters a lion's den in pearls and headdress Cecil B DeMille's Man And Woman, and Nazimova dances her seven veils off in the undeniably kitsch Salomé.

This week's new film events Steve Rose 2010

Nazimova and the Mothers received solemn assurances from each of these "leaders" that they supported the repeal of the barbaric Rockefeller laws.

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Mme. Nazimova has been quoted as saying that she would never act a play in verse, because in speaking verse she could not be natural.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Verse such as this would permit of every rhythmical variation known in English prosody, and through the appeal of its rhythm would offer the dramatist opportunities for emotional effect that prose would not allow him; but at the same time it could be spoken with entire naturalness by actors as ultra-modern as Mme. Nazimova.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

For this reason, and for this reason only, do modern actors like Mme. Nazimova complain of plays in verse.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

So go and dabble cold water on your eyes, so you don't look like Nazimova in the last act, and come along with. me.

Youth Challenges Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

I took her to see Nazimova to-night, and she sat star-eyed and hardly breathing.

Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

The principal female rôle was played by a Servian actress, Maria Orska -- very much on the type of Nazimova.

Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

Down the centre in the open carriages flows a stream of women -- and many look like Nazimova -- social distinctions so ironed out with enamel, paint, and powder that almost all might be café chantant singers or dressmakers 'marionettes.

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

Nazimova with very cheering expressions of assent.

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905