Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poems, with their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London Records. Where Gingold dramatizes the poems, Sitwell chants her surrealistic lines like a hypnotist, sometimes at breakneck speed. "We sought...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. A skillful British director, Desmond Davis, and a superlative British actress, Rita Tushingham, transform this rather banal tale of a young girl's affair with a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) into a movie of unusual warmth...
...process is interpreted with sensitivity and restraint by Director Irvin Kershner. Actress Ure, who in private life is Mrs. Shaw, manages to be both solidly female and delicately feminine as Mrs. Coffey. And Actor Shaw, known mostly for the stage roles he has played (The Caretaker) and the novels he has written (The Sun Doctor), is Ginger to the life. Brash, frightened, cunning, confused, sentimental, self-indulgent, weak but somehow also fundamentally decent and lovable, Ginger as Shaw sees him is both an individual and a type, an image of the child that is the father (and sometimes the undoing...
...Human Bondage. When a Hollywood actress begins to hunger for juicier roles, she often ends up playing a tart. Sadie Thompson or maybe Nana. Or sometimes Mildred, the strumpet waitress who dishes out the spice and spite in Somerset Maugham's classic autobiographical novel of the torments of young manhood. Bette Davis flashed on-screen as the first movie Mildred, in 1934. Eleanor Parker entered a low bid in 1946. Now, all Mildred's beads, feather boas, and skin-tight finery bedizen the substantial person of Kim Novak. Though the film will give ordinary moviegoers little pleasure...
...portrayed by Actress Novak, Mildred giggles a lot and speaks cockney like a girl who learned the sound of Bow bells from somewhere in South Chicago. But she still manages to make life hell for Philip (Laurence Harvey), the sensitive clubfooted medical student whom she meets, seduces and betrays with monotonous regularity. Eventually, Philip drags himself from her bed, only to find himself standing beside it while she dies of syphilis reels later. "I want a proper funeral," moans Mildred just before the end, and she is duly interred tor the third time...