Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophy, for all The Rainmaker's deluge of it, is not much deeper than a puddle, and the moviegoer can usually slosh ahead without bogging down. Then too, Director Joseph Anthony keeps his actors moving nimbly along. Actor Lancaster does a businesslike job as the rainmaker. Prud'Homme and Holliman are excellent as the father and the younger brother. Actress Hepburn does not always surely suggest the stages in Lizzie's life, as she passes from emotional chrysalis to vivid imaginal maturity, but she holds the eye in scene after scene like a brilliant moth...
Anthony Quinn, now 41, is a Hollywood actor who in 20 years before the cameras has seldom been permitted by his employers to create anything more significant than a three days' growth of beard. In 1952 Director Elia Kazan gave Quinn a good part in Viva Zapata!, and he won an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. In 1954, while on a visit to Italy, Quinn made a memorable meatball of the carnival strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, and last year he produced a vivid portrait of a genius as Painter Paul Gauguin...
...Hollywood Fame Poll Award is given each year to the top money-making movie actress or actor...
...problem of chemistry that turns out to be about as difficult as mixing a highball, the moviegoer has plenty of time to enjoy the seascapes off Cuba, where the film was made, and to get monumentally bored by the story. Things pick up toward the end, though, when Actor Mature himself takes to the water to make the final test. For a little while, as the sharks circle closer and closer, there seems to be a very good chance that they will...
...with some--though not all--of the other major roles, the difficulties of the play reassert themselves. Bryan Falk's Claudius appears unnecessarily stiff. Certainly the King should be regal, but that need not restrict the actor who portrays him to the single tone level and rate of delivery. Somewhat the same is true of Robert Jordan, in the part of Laertes. He tends to speak too fast to let his lines be readily understood. Lisa Rosenfarb, the Queen, happily avoids these mistakes. She speaks poetry perhaps better than anybody else in the cast. But in the other aspects...