Word: artlessness
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...female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey on the hunch that...
...tried to pry deeper. She could speak with disarming gaiety of her pleasingly irregular teeth and still not deny her obvious beauty. To the agonized gentlemen of the West Coast, whose business it often is to turn hatcheck girls into great ladies overnight with publicity gimmicks, Audrey's artless publicity technique was a revelation-just as her camera technique had been to the cameramen, and as her flair for dress was to the studio dressmakers. "Working with Audrey is fun," said one Hollywood expert last week. "When you're working with her, you're working with...
...performers have that curious and captivating air which Director Zinnemann calls "behaving rather than acting," an artless-seeming form of art that he followed in such notable films as The Search, The Men, The Member of the Wedding. At 46 one of Hollywood's top directors, Vienna-born Fred Zinnemann, a former cameraman, uses the camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such...
Shrewdly contrived, Trouble Along the Way goes all the way in trying to squeeze the last tear and laugh from its material. Nonetheless, it is high-toned hokum. Stealing the show from veteran Actors Coburn and Wayne is eleven-year-old Sherry Jackson in an artfully artless performance as Wayne's pert young daughter...
Budu, however, does not write as a political fugitive; indeed, he seems to be more interested in collecting royalties than in grinding political axes of any kind. Artless, candid, at times naive, he pictures a Stalin who dotes on Balzac novels, Turkish coffee and the color orange (he even has his watering cans painted that color), who hauls out pictures of his young son as fast as any bourgeois dad, warbles a passable tenor, and plays a sharp game of gorodki (a Russian mixture of shuffleboard and ninepins). Budu's Stalin is more human than the headlines he makes...