Word: celia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first comparison that thinking American audiences will probably make is between this British film and some of the stupendous offerings of the West Coast celluloidaterias. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, described Howard as being "just middle-aged once," are small, quiet, English bourgeoisie who are thrown, by chance, into a tragedy of love from which they will never emerge. Miss Johnson, as a housewife, is forty and looks it. She is not pretty. Her clothes are plain and her hair shows the results of innumerable "permanents" at a local beauty-parlor. Trevor Howard is a doctor, slightly bald, whose suits...
...Borrowing the phrase from Celia in As You Like It: "Well said: that was laid on with a trowel...
Martha Hopkins, in the title role, is an extraordinarily beautiful girl, and one could forgive her anything. One has to forgive some wooden acting, too, before she gets down to work in the finale and does some excellent singing. Betty Prescott as Celia, Margaret Spalding as Leila, and Nancy Hill as Fleta are reasonable...
...role of Phyllis. Wilfred Pickles adds his magnificent Irish tenor and completely unemotional countenance to the role of Strephon while Frances Shaffer is an imposing, though voiceless, Queen of the Fairies. Augusta Gifford takes over the role of Iolanthe, while Margaret Williams and Eleanor Finkelstein take the roles of Celia and Leila. As Private Willis, E. Barr Peterson gave the best individual performance of either cast...
...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...