Word: anna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
...exploit the picture's obvious possibilities, the producers of Anna have dubbed in English dialogue for the American market. It might very well give some of Hollywood's own brand of hokum a run for its money at the box office...
...Chicago, frugal Anna Cox, 74, a street-corner peddler of notions, disclosed that her address for the past seven years has been the Chicago Transit Authority. When room rents went up, Anna Cox took to the streetcars at night. "A trolley's got a rooming house beat a mile for comfort," she said, "and it's a sight cheaper." She kept a change of clothes in a warehouse, freshened up in public toilets, lived on vegetables and fruit, always paid her full fare ($7.14 a week). "I don't sleep as well in a bed," she explained...
Paramount gave her a screen test, coldly classified her appearance as "unprepossessing but took a high shine to her etching voice. After a breaking-in period she was funneled into a script called The Mars Are Singing that had aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, youthful Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti (TIME, May 8, 1950) and a performing dog to recommend it, but little else. To Rosemary the director parceled out a couple of routine songs, Haven't Got a Worry and Lovely Weather for Ducks, and a reprise of Come On-a My House; it began to look...
Died. Mrs. Susan Homans Woodruff, 83, last of a trio of elderly female angels of the Communist Daily Worker; in Manhattan. Onetime Schoolmarm Woodruff, a Smith College graduate and a D.A.R., joined Anna Whitaker Pennypacker (daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) and Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed (daughter of a Cambridge, Mass, physician) in providing the Worker with an early-American front after 1940. She once explained why Representative Martin Dies had never called her to testify before his Un-American Activities Committee: "The public would certainly make fun of him for bothering three old ladies...