an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
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an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
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the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
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Whatever you want, I can do it." Her big Broadway break came in 1960 when she played the ingenue in "Do Re Mi," a musical that starred Phil Silvers.
But Mr. Alter redeems it with his intelligent and sensitive discussion here of Tolstoy's treatment of the entrance of the ingenue Kitty at a ball.
She was, however, just another 23-year-old ingenue making adult films, indistinguishable from dozens of other young women in the de rigeur black nylons and garter belts of the times.
He seems torn between the 1960s ingenue look and the l8th century of Marie-Antoinette, topping dressy, skimpy minis with big satin and taffeta embroidered pannier skirts.
While he is not a great romantic actor, Booth's purposeful sincerity won him deserved applause. The role of Mariella, the ingenue heroine is not rewarding: she has little to do save suffer.
After attending the Sisters of Notre Dame Convent, she began theatrical training, appearing in stock companies playing boy's parts, then as an ingenue.
Francisco Araiza made a puny Chenier, Alcina was undercast and La belle Helene revealed the Viennese actor-director Helmut Lohner as an operatic ingenue.