Word: alda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered her face with cold cream, put her hair in "irons" and her head in a beauty-lift "hammock." For a long, gentle interlude, the gentleman turned to his sexy-voiced dress designer, Patricia Neal, who was having her own problems with Robert Alda, a rapacious playboy known as "the Jewish Errol Flynn." Over Pat's stingers, Walter grunted and groaned about the young generation, whose books are all titled Kiss Me Deadly, Kill Me Lovely or Love Me Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally...
...dialogue. "If I've failed you, honey, it is all my fault," someone says to someone else. Now when would ordinary Staten Island white trash use that kind of language? If both the action and dialogue are impossible, even such accomplished players as Miss Linda Darnell and Mr. Robert Alda of Hollywood, Calif. are bound to have trouble. Most assuredly they at least know their lines...
Miss Darnell waddles around self-consciously, and skims only the surface off a perturbing character. She never appears to be a woman worth arguing about. Mr. Alda, charming at first, seems to know that to be, but falls with his weak lines and impossible character into a confused and directionless series of histronics. Paul Langton, who gets third building as husband number two, is indistinguishable in one's memory ten minutes after the final curtain. The unlucky kid who is a party to the unlucky marital trio is played well by young Peter Votrain. Well, it preseverance and energy...
...trip to the zoo. Then they dictate to the teacher a story about what they have seen. The story appears on the blackboard or on a posterlike "experience chart" and is later read back. As such dictation proceeds, says San Francisco's Assistant School Superintendent (Elementary Schools) Alda Harris, "the children see that their own words can be transformed into written symbols...
Secret File stars Robert Alda, and its first script had a touchingly old-fashioned air. Alda, dressed in Nazi uniform, crept into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...