Word: alba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of a mysterious and paralyzing illness; as an artist, he was a respected court painter to Charles IV, but his searing studies of the agonies of war and the misery of the human condition still lay ahead of him. In the movie (filmed in Rome because the Alba family prevailed on Franco to lock the moviemakers out of Spain), "Paco" Goya is a beardless, hot-blooded youth (Anthony Franciosa) newly arrived in Madrid from the sticks. The duchess (Ava Gardner), a democratic type who prefers saloons to salons, eyes him ravishingly after he rescues her from a ruffian...
...Naked Maja (Titanus; United Artists) refers to the title of the celebrated nude painted by Spain's great Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) and identified by sentimentalists-though not by art historians-as a well-buffed study of his mistress, the Duchess of Alba. A reproduction of the portrait flashes onscreen briefly along with the titles, but this is just about the last note of authenticity in what may be the most inept movie biography since Cecil B. DeMille tore Cleopatra from the pages of history...
...SECRET, by Alba de Céspedes. Mamma, with grown children and a husband who takes her for granted, is an Italian; but she stands for the mammas of all countries who belatedly think that devotion to home and family have robbed them of more exciting ways to live. Author de Céspedes is a better guide to the female heart and mind than most of the psychologists in the bookstalls...
...Secret, by Alba de Cespedes. A sensitive glimpse into the soul of a middle-aged Italian woman, whose problems and dreams do not appear so very different from those of her American sisters...
...SECRET (249 pp.)- -Alba de Céspedes-Simon & Schusfer...