Word: brazzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Count Your Blessings (M-G-M). A vague young Englishman (Tom Helmore), known to his friends as "a bit of a clot," has a parting word for the suave Marquis de Valhubert (Rossano Brazzi), who is flying off for a London leave during World War II. "Look up old Grace." Old Grace is his young fiancee. The marquis looks Grace up-and down. "We will marry immediately," he announces. They marry. Four days later the marquis heads back to the wars, and poor Grace (Deborah Kerr) has nothing to do but stitch rugs and eat for two (Sigi is born...
Still and all, for the customer who wants a little sentimental education, this is a pretty pleasant way to get it. Actors Chevalier and Brazzi ooze the old-world charm. Actress Kerr is lovely to look at, and in a comedy role reveals a subtle sense of humor and a refined capacity to express it. And the script is often amusing in a mildly risky way. "When I think," the heroine rages, "he was making love to all the others at the same time!" And her father replies with gentle horror: "Surely not at the same time...
Actress Carere is presented as a homebody who yearns to marry a nice young law student (Bradford Dillman). But his mother does not like her, and her mother gets upset at the sight of him. Only solution: pop off to the seaside with his rakish Uncle Luc (Rossano Brazzi). In the book, after Luc's wife (Joan Fontaine) discovers their affair, Dominique goes right on with him. On the screen, endowed with an honestly passionate heart and soul, Dominique can only tearfully apologize and slink back to the youthful boy friend. Franchise Sagan doubtless regards the movie with...
...main parts are reasonably well played and sung. Actress Gaynor, who has a pleasant voice and a pretty figure, may very well satisfy the customers who did not see Mary Martin play the part. Actor Brazzi, whose songs are superbly dubbed by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Giorgio Tozzi, is suitably virile as her aging lover...
...South Pacific, tells what happens during the early days of the war in the Pacific to some naval officers, men and nurses on a U.S-held island in the New Hebrides. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around...