Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor with wrinkles in his wardrobe, and even a few lines in his face, that they almost reverently decided he must be great. He wasn't, but a lot of moviegoers took his fumbling as a sign of moral earnestness and his hesitation as a symptom of bashful charm. Gotten was typed as a sort of rising young vestryman-safe, but just possibly sexy...
...accompanying the royal family in all its lighter moments. Group Captain Townsend rode with the princesses, escorted Margaret to parties, flew her planes in air races, played canasta with the Queen, and by royal command enlivened many a gathering at Sandringham or Balmoral with his quick wit and boyish charm. He was, moreover, a securely married man who lived with his wife and two sons (the youngest of whom is the late King George's godson) in a "by grace and favor" cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle. If the younger princess found him delightful...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
Send My Baby Back to Me (Judy Garland; Columbia). Songstress Garland wallops out a bouncing song with lots of charm; the second side, Without a Memory, has all of the old vibrating Garland warmth...
Producer Wood took a step forward on the cable-cluttered floor. "Now look," he said reassuringly, "you people have a definite amount of charm. Let it come out.' The President leaned back in his chair, chuckled and clapped his hands together. Then the presidential image was plucked away for distribution to millions of living rooms. Said he: "Good evening, everybody" (departing from the script's "Good evening, my fellow Americans"), and the show...