Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waging psychological warfare against her. In one scene, Stevens has to carry Jenny onstage through a fire door; Mrs. Hecht feared that "if we didn't tell her to duck, she would have her head bashed in." She pleaded with Stevens: "Why don't you try to charm Jenny?" But he ignored the suggestion...
...because he knows she loves him for himself, not just for his title. Gioacchino Rossini and his librettist left out all references to fairy godmothers, pumpkins and glass slippers. But Rossini filled his work with a cloudburst of pretty tunes whose lightning changes of mood had a magical charm of their...
...came down with polio, and the disease left her with a painful limp. Moreover, in her determination to succeed as a singer, she developed as a youngster such a grimly serious manner that her voice teacher, Toronto's Weldon Kilburn, feared she would never charm an audience. But when she gave her first recital at 15, she dropped her determined air and radiated...
...with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
Fortunately, much of the movie needs no supplementary conversation. The pantomime of Jean-Louis Barrault is eloquent; the bluster, cunning, and charm of Pierre Brassuer is largely expression of hands, mouth, eyes and the intonations of voice; and the earthy beauty of Arletty defies description. It is Arletty, and my changing impressions of her throughout the movie, that I remember most vividly. For the first time in my experience, an actress who seemed plain at the beginning became more and more beautiful as the story wove its way to an ending, until I found myself not consciously seeing her physically...