Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week with a schedule of no less than 170 events by eight orchestras seven choruses, six chamber orchestras' and quartets, one ballet, one opera and five dramatic companies. First week's highlight was the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of Firebird, starring brilliant Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who in the title role seemed as quick as an imp out ot hell, as fluttery as a butterfly...
...this time the moviegoer is about to drop his eyeballs out the window, and Hitchcock starts to tease. The photographer's girl friend (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion publicist, runs a pretty French seam of kisses down the Stewart profile; the ballerina in the lower-left corner of the camera's eye further cuts the sleuthing down to thighs; and the newlyweds in the third floor across the way keep threatening to dramatize every old joke about newlyweds. The beauty of it is that all Hitchcock's pandering is done with such wit and grace that...
Desires (Meteor-Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...
Threatened with legal action and financial ruin because of the missing morphine, the apothecary begs the ballerina to give it back. She refuses. A little later she had a heart attack, and the apothecary's wife, filling out a prescription of strychnine for the patient, has the perfect opportunity to do her in. While light and darkness moil and wrangle, the wife makes her inner decision...
...photography is first-class in a murkily introspective way, and the ballerina (Sybil Werden), the druggist (O. W. Fischer) and his wife (Heidemarie Hatheyer) are steadily excellent. There is some quiet kidding of second-string ballet companies, and a thrilling, light-splashed rush through the country in a carriage. But all too often the moviegoer is deafened by the tinkling symbols (e.g., spiders to signify evil thoughts, scales to balance vice and virtue) that clamor in the background...