Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMMENCEMENTS were busting out all over last week, and many a famous man and woman donned cap and gown for the annual distribution of honorary degrees. Whether actress or general, scholar or former infielder, each heard his praises sung in the rolling rhetoric of the citations accompanying their degrees. For a sampling of this year's academic honors list, see EDUCATION, Kudos...
...Actress Tallulah Banlchead switched to philosophy, found it so smooth that she fashioned a 120 proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...
...middle class of "proud, desirous" Dexter Green and the cashmere-on-the-golf-links security of Judy Jones, whom Dexter saw always "in a soft deep summer room," peopled with the men who had already loved her. Talented young (28) Director John Frankenheimer extracted an extraordinary piquancy from British Actress Dana Wynter, who as Judy was a haunting re-creation of the ideal girl of Fitzgerald's generation. And TV's John .Cassavetes made a winning Dexter, "unconsciously dictated to by his winter dreams" of glittery things. Fitzgerald said Judy always "looked as if she wanted...
...whole, the film compares favorably with the play. The scriptwriters, Phoebe and Henry Ephron, have added some happy touches of silly business. And though Actress Hepburn tends to wallow in the wake of Shirley Booth, who played the part on Broadway, she never quite sinks in the comic scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William...