Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vengeance Is Mine. In Albuquerque, Motorist Anita Warnick spotted the dog that had bitten her three weeks before, swerved to hit the beast, instead crashed into a house and wound up under arrest...
...Just the thing to wear when seeing Marilyn. Monroe in How to Marry a Decadent Imperialistic Beast...
Haymaker. In Pinckneyville, Ill., Farmer Leslie Ertl, 59, annoyed by the stubbornness of one of his cows, kicked the beast, wound up in the hospital with a broken...
What Cocteau allowed to become trick photography in Orpheus he kept as normal-if extraordinarily clever-direction in Beauty. Working with Miss Day, and with Jean Marais as the Beast, the director made an elementary and familiar plot into a small triumph of mood and attitude: a fairy tale for the bigger kids. ROBERT J. SCHOENBERG
...realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live who can convince me that she has really learned to live with a monster and to regard his terrifying chateau with its mobile furnishing...