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Word: charm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women's charm stems from the very natural and unforced character of its wit, managing to discuss sex both honestly and with good taste--not to say very amusingly, a problem that has given Hollywood more than a little trouble. O Men, O Women is one of the most spritely comedies to hit the screen for a long time...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: O Men, O Women | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

Joan Bennett plays the leading lady with a brassy verve that is matched by Donald Cook as her husband. Romney Brent plays Miss Bennett's collaborator with a limpid little-boy charm. Edith Meiser carries a spinster character role with enough energy to compensate for the poor lines she was given, and Jerome Cowan plays an amorous Internal Revenue agent. The play is held together by a succession of hilarious stage business, a routine with Mr. Cook drinking coffee, and other bits which are marvelously performed...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Janus | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

Like too many documentaries, this one would be monotonous if it did not convey a charm which the audience feels increasingly as the picture progresses. Gunsbach looks as friendly and quaint as the post-cards of Spring in Alsace, but Schweitzer's narration tells how he grew up in the village, and this village lives for the audience. Sensitive shots of Lambarene's patients: a tired woman nursing a tired baby; a disarmingly attractive child with leprosy; men scratching their bottoms because they itch; all add to the charm...

Author: By Will Snickson, | Title: Albert Schweitzer | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...production is not without its good points: the cinema's Nancy Olson is almost as engaging as she is attractive, and Tom Ewell, though at times the quivering slave of direction, has always the wonderful look of an oaf with charm or a camel with problems. But too often the play-overlong to begin with-tends to spell out every last word where it should not even finish the sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Donskoy's way with children is as remarkable. Half his cast was children, and he treated them like adults with the result that there is little cute or faked about their performances. Though Alyosha Lyorsky acts with great charm, Young Gorky is the least convincing of the children. He is too often posed. Sometimes, when he should apparently be silently storing up observations as befits the future founder of Socialist Realism, he just stares. Similarly, S. Tikhonravov, as the anarchist lodger, falls victim to the Soviet preferences for gallant poses...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

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