Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. A brilliant and graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who encounters romantic complications while touring India with a tatty Shakespearean company left over from the British colonial...
...Cannes Festival. "I hesitated at first," recalled Sophia. "It wouldn't be easy running a group of well-known writers and thinkers like Marcel Achard, André Maurois, Marcel Pagnol and Peter Ustinov. But then I said to myself, 'Why not be a judge instead of an actress for once? After all, I do know something about the movies, don't I?' So I said...
...turned out, Sophia's yes was one of the few worthwhile affirmations at the festival. Vanessa Redgrave was voted best actress for her performance in Morgan! (see following story). But then, most of the critics agreed with only half of the judges' first-prize choice -Un Homme et Une Femme, a love story with a car-racing background (TIME, May 20.) What disturbed the critics was that the judges decided to split the top award with another film, Signore e Signori, yet another view of middle-class Italian mores by Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style); nor did many...
...another actress, the movie Morgan! would have been the top of a career; for Vanessa Redgrave, 29, it has only been a steppingstone to a throne. Next year she will be Queen Guinevere in Warner Bros.' screen adaptation of Camelot, a role that Julie Andrews played on Broadway...
...Gavras' camerawork, the movies real strength lies lies in its acting. Yves Montand, as Graziani, endures insults with rheumy resignation and maintains a respect for his fellow men even when he can no longer stand to be polite to them. Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, as the fading actress, establishes the aura of attractive pathos that has become her trademark. And their daughter, Catherine Allegret, who plays the young girl, is a charming exemplar of wholesome patience and competence...