Mildred Dunnock of roles in Broadway productions during the 1930s, Dunnock won praise for her performance as a Welsh school teacher in "The Corn is Green" in 1940. The 1945 film version marked her screen debut. During the 1940s she performed mainly on stage, in such dramas as "Another Part of the Forest" (1946) and "Death of a Salesman" (1949) and in the musical "Lute Song" (1946). In 1947, Dunnock became a founding member of the Actors Studio. Dunnock reprised her "Salesman" role in the 1951 film version. She originated the role of Big Mama in the Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a
The Golden Bird The Golden Bird "The Golden Bird" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, number 57, about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons. A French version, collected by Paul Sébillot in "Littérature orale de la Haute-Bretagne", is called "Le Merle d'or" (The Golden Blackbird). Andrew Lang included that variant in "The Green Fairy Book" (1892). It is Aarne-Thompson folktale type 550, "The Golden Bird", a Supernatural Helper. Other tales of this type include "The Bird 'Grip'", "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener", "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf", "How Ian Direach got the