The Brief But Significant Stardom of Muriel Angelus
March was the birthday of Muriel Angelus (Muriel Findlay, 1912-2004). But a single performance intrigued me enough to begin exploring her background for Travalanche: she plays the wife of the title character in Preston Sturges’ The Great McGinty (1940). In the role, she has this amazing combination of moral authority, beauty and grace; it has […]