Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date, the five children of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have been married a total of twelve times, divorced seven times, have had 19 children. Individual scores: Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted, three marriages, two divorces, three children, one grandson; James, two marriages, one divorce, five children; Elliott, four marriages, three divorces, four children; Franklin Jr., two marriages, one divorce, three children; John, one marriage, no divorces, four children...
...pretty rough week. Critic Virgil Thomson of the Herald Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...
...Golden Coach. Jean Renoir's costume comedy of Spain's golden age, as rich in color as his father's paintings; with Anna Magnani at her earthy best (TIME, Feb.1...
...acting is not uniformly topnotch, perhaps because the film, though made in Italy, is spoken mostly in English, a language some of the actors are not very familiar with. But whatever the rest of the cast may lack is more than made up by Anna Magnani. Not since she emerged in Open City, as a sort of back-alley Duse, has Magnani pelted an audience with so much juicy histrionic fruit. She raves, she twitters, she hauls off and slugs. In one astonishing scene, a whole bullfight transpires in her face far more impressively than it could have been shown...
...Coach is the story of what happens when a band of strolling players of the Renaissance, a commedia dell' arte company from Italy, troops into a Spanish colonial seat in South America to play for the uncomprehending rurals and the hayseed nobility of the region. Camilla, the Columbine (Anna Magnani), in love with a young Castilian noble she met on the voyage over (Paul Campbell), is soon juggling the local bullfighter (Riccardo