Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...
...John Amery as a precocious, contrary fop who had once been a Communist fellow traveler. He had tried film producing and gone bankrupt for more than $20,000. He had got 70 traffic convictions and been disqualified from driving for five years. He had been prevented from marrying an actress, Una Wing, in Chelsea, Paris, Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. Then he had married her in Greece. He had been arrested in Paris on an extradition order by Greek police for passing phony checks...
Provocative, unusual, but often unsatisfying, The Skin of Our Teeth dolls up its theme rather than dramatizes it. The fourth dimension somehow stays apart from the other three. Hocus-pocus and moral never quite blend. But the hocus-pocus-with superbly vivacious Actress Bankhead handing most of it out-is often extremely funny. "I hate this play," she suddenly confides. "That's the worst line I've ever had to say on any stage," she complains wearily; but she never spoke one better...
...stylish stouts, Sarah's extreme leanness seemed undesirable. Said a wag: "An empty carriage stopped, and Sarah Bernhardt got out." Suddenly Sarah found herself; she began to recite poetry- "as the nightingale sings, as the wind sighs, as water murmurs." At 35 Sarah became European Actress No. 1, and "the divine Sarah...
...nobody much cares. It's really a better-than-average plot, and the mustached hero is his usual charming self. Miss Turner's bodily presence in an assortment of gay dresses and one bath towel is enough to bring the spectators in droves. She isn't too bad an actress, either. Robert Sterling, as the kid brother, is fair enough. The film is never boring, and its value to you is strictly a matter of taste. For them as likes a good neck. "Somewhere I'll Find You" is nice fodder...