Word: avril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monumental procession of question marks in color. Hans Hartung's T 55-28 has airy life about it, yet hardly seems to justify Expert Alfred Barr's considered statement that Hartung, 54, a German turned Parisian, is "perhaps the best master of calligraphic abstraction." In 3 Avril 54, Pierre Soulages' black, plank-broad oil smears do not seem a great advance over the similar smears that first brought him attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost...
Ronnie Gates joins the list of talented juveniles that have cropped up in the past couple of years. His portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
Collette Marchand, as a warped bawd from the slums, is Lautree's first love. She plays the temperamental procuress with gratifying relish. Wonderfully French, Zsa Zsa Gabor sings and twitters her way through the role of Jane Avril, the toast of the Moulin Rouge. And Suzanne Flon, the woman who loves embittered Lautrec too late, is sadly appealing as one of the few unkept women in Paris...
...agony. The women in Lautrec's life make an exotic gallery: blonde French Dancer Colette Marchand as the rapacious streetwalker who almost drives Lautrec to suicide; Suzanne Flon as the perceptive, understanding model, Myri-ame Hayem; Hollywood's flouncy Zsa Zsa Gabor as man-chasing Singer Jane Avril (in real life, a favorite Lautrec cancan model); Katherine Kath as the tigerish, redheaded dancer Louise Weber...
Gabor struck a delicately balanced pose in imitation of another famous singer and actress: Jane Avril, favorite model of French Artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Then she left for Paris to play the part of the poster model in a new movie, Moulin Rouge, the life story of Lautrec...