Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa in the South of France come a painter named Carroll (Victor Jory) and his second wife (Actress Bergner). They are a seemingly enraptured couple. For quite a while, people drink tea and drone on about Beauty in an atmosphere more amorous than ominous; then the wife turns weak and wan - though not from knowing that her husband is hitting it up with a young widow two villas away...
...talented people have developed marvelous skill in a tradition as rigid and elaborate as Javanese dancing, and almost as remote from life. Miss Bergman comes of a tradition in which an interest in realism, in the huge and various wealth of actual life, is as natural to a good actress as to a good novelist...
...will always like its great dancers and ritualists with good reason. But its fondness for Miss Bergman indicates, as well, an appetite for the sudden lights, edged shades and flexibilities of reality. As an actress, Miss Bergman has just one basic rule: "Never speak a line which does not make sense for the part." She is probably the best reader of lines in the business just now; and it appears to pay. Ingrid Bergman's first five U.S. pictures have brought her to an enviable position, which, for better or worse, her present role destroys for her forever. Hitherto...
...guerrilla leader, Pablo, Hemingway's terrible symbol of a man devastated by the fear of death, Akim Tamiroff has some magnificent, all but tragic moments. As Pilar, Hemingway's salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
...high-collared radio men are not so sure. Ad-libbed shows give them the aerial willies. So far, the quickness of mistress of ceremonies Arlene Francis, radio & stage actress (The Doughgirls), has stood them in good stead. One losing serviceman, who won an unanticipated $15 consolation prize, gleefully grabbed the microphone and advised his favorite bartender: "Hello, Clyde, set 'em up down there!" Miss Francis recovered with: "He means Maxwell House Coffee, of course...