Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist Fleeson gets so much fun out of her job that friends who see her gadding about sometimes wonder when she works. The answer is: all the time. Says she: "People sometimes talk to me about things other than politics," but not very often. With a combination of ladylike charm, blazing indignation and air-burning profanity, she manages to like and be liked by almost everybody in the capital...
...suppose, inevitable that Singin' in the Rain be compared with Kelly's last vehicle, An American in Paris. It seemed to me that the latter film had the better ballet sequence, a good male singing voice in Georges Guetary, and a certain Continental charm absorbed from the Parisian locale...
...star whose popularity has faded with time. With A Song In My Heart has great success in following this pattern. The show has only one large-scale production number. For most of the other songs, Miss Hayward is alone on the scene, lending her own brand of vivacious charm to Miss Froman's exciting voice...
...motivation for Miss Froman's love affair with John Burn, the co-pilot of the plane. Burn, played insipidly by Rory Calhoun, does not appear long enough on the screen to get across much character. It is not very clear why Miss Froman preferred Burn to Ross, played with charm by David Wayne...
...know, with her feelings as well as with her mind, that Russia is a terrible and terrorized police state, ruled with complete cynicism by "a gang of ruthless and bloody-minded professors"?*That is a question which still troubles those who find it not difficult to resist her charm...