Word: adventuresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pullman, Washington, the adventuress' home, has a population of 1403 and is known for lobster races and a recent hockey craze...
...years ago, is just being released in the U.S. A warmly entertaining little picture, it proves that a good director and a sound story can make an unpretentious production gleam with humanity, humor and sharp characterizations. Director Sidney Gilliat has proved this point before (in Green for Danger, The Adventuress, etc.). This time he manages it with the tale of a young couple (John Mills and Joy Shelton) in wartime England...
...serpentine affair into which this innocent adventuress lightly steps takes her to a Lebanese mountain village, then to Jerusalem and to Cairo. Sardonic Sergeant Prayle of British Field Security tails her with amusement, with concern, and finally with love. Along the way the reader is treated to crisp descriptions of an ancient and holy landscape, of types ranging from a touchy Gaullist officer to an Orthodox archimandrite and his mistress...
...Actors. For acting honors, Hollywood ran second to the British. The Manhattan critics called Deborah Kerr the year's best actress-for her work in Britain's The Adventuress and Black Narcissus (no mention was made of Miss Kerr in MGM's The Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 26, copper-haired British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp, The Adventuress), who has thus far survived her M-G-Metamorphosis into a Hollywood star (The Hucksters), and Anthony Bartley, 28, ace Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Jane Bartley. Weight...