Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marianne Purdy plays the wonderful worldly-wise French head-mistress with charm, coyly leads millionaire Percival Browne (David Pursley) about the stage with a wave of her fan. Mr. Pursley's Percival is British to the hilt, dry and witty and essentially comic, and in some scenes it's a wonder he can keep a straight face...
...stationed in Japan as a naval officer, and I found that the charm of Japanese women revealed American women to be what many of them really are: domineering, gross cows. Unfortunately, in this age of irrationality the "liberated" Japanese girls are now imitating American barbarians...
...kids down from prep school for Easter vacation were puzzled by this heroine of another generation and probably confirmed in their judgment of that generation as hopelessly square. But the squares themselves glowed under Betty's apple-pie charm. They were perhaps a little disappointed by the show, but at 42 or thereabouts, Betty still has the legs everyone remembers-almost...
...Hotspur, who is both the noble avatar of chivalry gone out-of-date, and a very young man full of appealing foibles. In this role Thomas Weisbuch is properly brisk and explosive, but even from Row D his words are often hard to understand; worse, he lacks both the charm of boyish buoyancy that should make Hotspur irresistible, and the trumpet-tongued grandeur requisite to his mounting "esperance...
Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden...