ingénue
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For Early it was also a chance to fulfill his longtime desire to play an old-school ingénue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
In these images Sellers—a comic giant at the height of his career—acts as an eager paparazzo chasing after the self-assured ingénue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
Kelli O’Hara and Adam Guettel had the inkling more than 20 years ago, when she was a Broadway ingénue, working on what became her breakthrough Tony-nominated role in “Light in the Piazza.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Here Charles Frohman saw her work, and liked it so much that he engaged her for the ingénue in his first stock company, then lodged at Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theater.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Rachel is taken with Gustav’s films, and the director sees a familiar spark of brilliance in the young ingenue.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
But her school had a traditionally beautiful ingenue who landed the leads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
It was such an ingenue thing to say, and Adina had never played that role.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Instead, the ingénues were cast in lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Ms. Hunt said she begged studio executives to end her run of dewy-eyed coeds and romance-minded ingénues and give her a better range of parts, even if it meant a drop from marquee billing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022
“She’s one of the great ingénues, but she’s fiery, she’s different, she’s got a past.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
Sitting next to a casting director as a line of secondary ingénues streamed past, Dan said, “I vote for her,” and she got the part.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 8, 2019
She stood before the screen, certain she could practically smell the restaurant, the heavy perfumes of a room full of divas and ingénues.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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