Word: baxter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Anne Baxter won an Academy Award for the best supporting drunk of the year, while the award for the best drunk went to Fredric March [TIME, March...
...contribution to the industry. William Wyler was Oscared for directing Best Years. Fredric March was named the year's best actor for his role in it. Handless Veteran Harold Russell was chosen the best supporting actor, and got another Oscar just on general principles. (Best supporting actress: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge...
...young man apparently dissatisfied with just about everything, who journeys hither and you about the globe in search of his soul. Tyrone Power tries very hard and succeeds in being adequate, if nothing more. Most of the remainder of a large and expensive cast, which includes Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Herbert Marshall, and John Payne, among innumerable others, gives the same sort of not-particularly-exciting performance. Clifton Webb, in a part which seems almost to have been custom-tailored for him, makes the most of every one of his opportunities, and should merit the greatest share of whatever acting...
Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...
...sentimentality was not to be confused with his tenderness; Tarkington's affection for Penrod and Willy Baxter, for Alice Adams and Claire Ambler and all his young people, gave life to his novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at his best failed in that way. Nothing in Alice Adams is more pathetic than the author's own willingness to let the Adams family be salvaged by a golden-hearted businessman and Alice herself by gallant enrollment in a business college. One such piece of symbolism might pass...