Word: alida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farrebique and Schoolgirl Diary make a peculiar duo at the Old South. The former is a remarkable French semi-documentary about a year of peasant life, while the latter finds new-Hollywoodized Alida Valli in carlier, or schoolgirl, costume in a poor-to-middling melodrama...
...Alida Valli, as anybody can see, is a beautiful young woman. She may be a. good actress as well, but she can never prove it in such pictures as this. Frank Sinatra, looking rather flea-bitten as the priest, acts properly humble-or perhaps ashamed. Most of the other performers have handled garbage before and have little if any shame; Lee J. Cobb, a good actor under all circumstances, even manages to make a believable man out of his cinemagnate...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Alida Valli in Spellbound...
...normal course of Hollywood events, Cinemagnate David O. Selznick was rumored to have set the rent on his latest import, Italian Cinemactress Alida Valli. For one picture...
Even more interesting than many of the pictures were the Independents' titles and price-tags. Samples: The Startling Discontinuity of Spatial Existence ($750), / Have Lived ($125), Death to the Fascist Snake ($150), Terror ($200), My Wife (not for sale). But there was nothing as startling this year as Alida Conover's picture of a cow on fire a dozen years...