Word: ami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring came to Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications...
...feature, "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami," stars George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Ann Dvorak, and is just about the most detestable bilge that has been flung at a screen since the nickelodeon went out. It's dull...
...Private Affairs of Bel Ami (Loew-Lewin; United Artists) is the latest example of Albert Lewin's passion for bringing musky literary classics to the screen. Writer-Director Lewin is responsible for movie versions of Maugham's The Moon & Sixpence and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. His adaptation of Maupassant's coldly sardonic novel Bel Ami is his smoothest job to date. But it also clearly defines the limitations of Mr. Lewin's kind of movie...
...caption warns the audience, straight off: "This is the story of a scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan...
...shanty-like servants' quarters. It has bamboo-fenced grounds, which were given over to neighborhood pigs, fowl and scabby babies. It had been occupied by the Japanese for eight years, and neglected for eight years. Consequently, it was in an absolutely revolting state of disrepair: no furniture, tat ami (raised floors) everywhere, brokendown plumbing and lighting, filth, filth and more filth...