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...soil for the first time in more than seven scandal-haunted years. Ingrid's return was as brief (36 hours) as it was triumphant; she had come to pick up the New York Film Critics' "best actress" award for her excellent performance in the title role of Anastasia (TIME, Dec. 17). Not there to meet her: Ingrid's daughter Jennie Ann Lindstrom, 18, a University of Colorado freshman, unseen by her mother since 1951. Actress Bergman later chatted affectionately by long-distance phone with her daughter. Serene in a handsome mink coat, Ingrid doffed...
...film on a preliminary ballot) and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Their mutual choice as best director: John Huston for Moby Dick. In other categories they differed. Best Actor: Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (Critics), Yul Brynner in The King and I, Anastasia and The Ten Commandments (Board). Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (Critics), Dorothy McGuire in Friendly Persuasion (Board). Best Screenwriter: S. J. Perelman for Around the World (Critics only). Best foreign film: La Strada (Critics), The Silent World (Board...
...Anastasia (20th Century-Fox) is a name, derived from the Greek, that means "of the resurrection." It is also the curiously appropriate name of the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, last of the Czars of Russia. Many romantics fondly believe that Anastasia survived the slaughter of the royal family in a Siberian cellar in 1918, escaped with two members of the firing squad, and is living today, an indigent widow, near Stuttgart, West Germany. On Broadway, Anastasia was a financially successful attempt, made in 1954, to resurrect this legend in the dubious form of a Cinderella story, with undertones...
...Anastasia, Actress Bergman is a princess in distress. Nobody believes she is who she says she is, and even she herself, benumbed by the horrors of the revolution and her escape, is inclined to doubt her identity. The doubt is soon complicated by the fact that she is induced to impersonate herself by the wicked General Bounine, a White Russian adventurer who would like to lay hands on the "Czar's fortune" deposited in the Bank of England. The spectator is thus caught in a dramatic paradox (virtue can triumph only if vice does) that keeps his mind engaged...
...Philadelphia: Shelley Winters stars in Richard Nash's comedy "The Girls of Summer" at the Walnut Theatre, and Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas appear in "Happy Hunting" at the Schubert. Anastasia, the story of Russian aristocracy in search of a crown, closes tonight at the Abbey Playhouse. Eugene Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia Symphony in Kabalesky, Gliere, and Brahams...