Word: alias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who had bought her eleven-year-old daughter a war bond two years before, sent the Treasury a snapshot of the girl, demanded the money that was promised on maturity, explained : "You can see that she is very mature." Enough. In Khartoum, Africa, Heir Alia announced he was tired of living, stopped eating, died...
...warmth, of life, and of real cinematic sensitiveness. Credit for its awkward grace is due in part to a round dozen of its little-known players, in part to its scripters and director and cameraman, but most of all to 40-year-old Producer Val Lewton, nephew of Alia Nazimova...
Cinemaudacities. As the year 1943 unwinds, these characters change and grow as they seldom get time to do in films. Miss Colbert greys perceptibly and learns to be a welder. An immigrant welder (Alia Nazimova) tells her that she embodies her own dearest dreams of America, Startling cinemaudacity: months after her husband is reported missing, Welder Colbert toys with the idea of accepting Mr. Gotten at last. Earlier Gotten seriously considers trying to seduce...
...indispensable merit of tone it did not have. It failed to make little scenes radiant or heartbreaking; it played for laughs; it turned minor roles into blatant character parts. Chekhov-lovers had seen a more poignant Cherry Orchard years ago, when Eva LeGallienne staged it and warm, volatile, Slavic Alia Nazimova played the central role...
Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...