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  • It certainly doesn't compare to David Raksin's score for The Bad and the Beautiful or Minnelli/Houseman's later over-the-top melodrama, Two Weeks in Another Town.

    The Drapes of Wrath Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • It certainly doesn't compare to David Raksin's score for The Bad and the Beautiful or Minnelli/Houseman's later over-the-top melodrama, Two Weeks in Another Town.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • But even before he wrote about movies, Bogdanovich was a boy-genius actor (he studied with Stella Adler in the afternoons after his high school classes let out, and he was an understudy with John Houseman's American Shakespeare Festival before he was eighteen; he now plays Dr. Melfi's shrink on The Sopranos).

    Wolves, Actors, Jihadis 2004

  • But even before he wrote about movies, Bogdanovich was a boy-genius actor (he studied with Stella Adler in the afternoons after his high school classes let out, and he was an understudy with John Houseman's American Shakespeare Festival before he was eighteen; he now plays Dr. Melfi's shrink on The Sopranos).

    Wolves, Actors, Jihadis 2004

  • It would have been wonderful to stumble into the signature of Houseman's old partner from the Mercury Theater days, Orson Welles, as well.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • It would have been wonderful to stumble into the signature of Houseman's old partner from the Mercury Theater days, Orson Welles, as well.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • "She will keep quiet; I have Houseman's word for it."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

  • With this she fell into violent hysterics, and was carried out of the room at Houseman's earnest entreaty.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • The evening before the assizes, Mr.. Gaunt's apartments were Mr. Houseman's head-quarters, and messages were coming and going all day, on matters connected with the defence.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • Houseman's power received a fall from which it will never recover.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

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