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Sandi Rosman gives a convincing and reassured performance of the harassed Mary; Sheila Flaherty is perfect in the role of the not-too-helpful busybody and her sense of timing is expert. Teaming up with Abby Smith as Miriam, she puts on a spitfight in the second act which is...

Author: By Stephen Stamatopulos, | Title: The Women | 4/26/1952 | See Source »

The Doctor Wilson of My Six Convicts isn't really a busybody. In fact, he is conscientious, unassuming individual, who believes that a clinical psychologist can benefit a prison. Not discouraged by an uncooperative group of prisoners, he proves himself to them by keeping secret knowledge of a proposed prison...

Author: By Michael Maccosy, | Title: My Six Convicts | 4/15/1952 | See Source »

Actress Young is seldom out of Director Tay Garnett's camera; her excellent acting almost turns Cause for Alarm! into a one-woman show. But a tight script by Mel (The Window) Dinelli and Producer Tom Lewis also contains rounded minor roles, unusually well played by Margalo Gillmore as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Wives & a Spinster | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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