Word: anastasia
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...husky contralto which ranged from a whisper to a raucous shout. Such personages as François Mauriac and Françoise Sagan dashed off songs for her. Sartre wrote that "in her throat she has millions of poems not yet written." When she took to the stage (in Anastasia) in a straight dramatic role, Le Monde's Robert Kemp was entranced by her "dignity and poetry," found her "smashing...
Actress Ingrid Bergman, 39, signed up with 20th Century-Fox studio to do the title role in a film version of the Broadway hit Anastasia (TIME, Jan. 10). The movie will not be shot in the U.S., Ingrid's adopted homeland until 1949, when she left to star in the film Stromboli ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), deserted her surgeon husband for Italian Director Roberto Rossellini on the raging Mediterranean island, later married little Roberto's proud papa...
Jacksonville at 12:30 p.m., Dec. 27 in the Hotel Roosevelt; Kansas City, Missouri, at 12 noon, Dec. 27 in the University Club; Memphis at 12:15 p.m., Dec. 20 in the Peabody Hotel; Miami at 5 p.m., Dec. 27 at Mr. Francis McTiernan's, 1260 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables...
Unfortunately, however, the highly competent performances of the two leading ladies and the psychological possibilities of Anastasia are virtually smothered by the play's strong allegorical themes. The audience is always conscious of the materialist General lurking on stage, and Anastasia must continually spout lines about the glory of the past and the new glory of the future...
...trials of unthroned royalty seems a banal topic, but Anastasia might have had possibilities, especially in a portrayal of the renewal of a wartorn psyche. Instead, Marcelle Maurette has choosen to emphasize the pure romance of the story and, even worse, clouds the romance with her allegorical reflections. For this reason, Anastasia is dramatic, but, on the whole, not worth the trouble...