Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main fuel for glow is a trio of principal players: Elinor Fuchs as a warm, vain and fading actress, Wendy Mackenzie as an ingenuous country girl who becomes more or less great in betrayal, and Andre Gregory, playing an author whose weakness and fine sensibilities combine to ruin lives. These three set a hard mark for the rest with thoughtful portrayals designed intelligently to develop and exploit the respective characters. Especially in Gregory's case one sees how his characterization during the early, seemingly unimportant scenes, is a well calculated build-up to his later scenes. All three deserve more...
...fancy chuck wagon parked near Palm Springs, Calif., rugged Cinemactor Clark (Mogambo) Gable and his old-time playmate, sometime Actress Kay Williams Spreckels, fifth ex-wife of Sugar (Honey Dew) Daddy Adolph Spreckels II, lined up for morning chow. With other early risers of the Desert Riders, oldest galloping group in those parts, they had just taken a constitutional in the saddle as dawn peeped over the oasis...
...treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet W. B. Yeats, a director of the Irish national theater, who was vainly trying to make a speech in the din. Finally the Civic Guards had to be rushed in to clear the house...
...actually marries a red-blooded Indian girl. The moviemakers have of course been careful to soften the shock of this dee-double-daring event. The marriage takes place way back in the 1870s and is not shown on the screen. The Indian girl is played by a pretty young actress (Debra Paget) who is obviously of sturdy Nordic stock, and the rest of the picture is so dull that moviegoers may not care what happens to the characters anyway...
...miserable by "the damned ole Senate, epitomizes this comic versatility. He delivers everything from vaudeville gags to a farcical high school oration, and is so unabashed a comedian that he laughts at his own material. The audience does too, of course. Ruth McDevitt plays Mrs. Laura Partridge, the ex-actress who attends a stock-holders meeting on the advice of her horoscope and ends up controlling the corporation, with a perfectly-timed juxtaposition of naivete and shrewdness...