Word: barmaids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes: a beach picnic, as airily languid as the colored soap bubbles blown by a Mexican girl, and a muddled wedding party, alive with tears and frayed tempers...
Despite small virtues. Gently Does It falls sadly short-chiefly by falling between stools. The liveliest scenes-of marital life between Edward and the barmaid-are in plot terms the least in order, while the melodrama is severely rationed. And for a murder play, there is almost no sense of cat and mouse-something particularly needed when, right from the beginning...
Early in the play. Edward (Anthony Oliver) neatly does in his wife, only to find that financially he has done himself in as well. He sets out to recoup by courting and marrying a well-to-do ex-barmaid (vivaciously played by Brenda Bruce), but she proves more than a match for him. A third lady now crosses his path-a path that leads, after many turns, but to the grave...
...histories; it excludes women in prison because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...