Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serenade, Vic has already pulled more than 1,000 letters from such groups as "Vic's Victims," "Veni, Vidi, Vic," and "The Golden Agers"-a Damone fan club composed entirely of grandmothers. Vic seems to have a fatal charm for elderly women; once, after he had sung, an old lady rushed onstage and bussed him roundly...
...still too early to tell what Hollywood will do with Deborah Kerr, or vice versa. She has to huckster a pretty thin role for an actress of her charm and ability-and do what she can with it while M-G-M is huckstering the daylights out of her. She goes through the assigned paces with a good grace, refining them with considerable shrewdness and as much concern for more serious artistry as the heavily commercial traffic will bear...
Deer Creek is by no means this year's version of life with father. Miss Alsop writes with great charm of city life in Brooklyn and country life in Pennsylvania, of the place that the church and religion had in the life of half a century ago. Readers will find a rounded picture of a full and satisfying kind of U.S. family life that is rapidly dying...
...story is no more than a fair excuse for the neat moviemaking which makes this picture entertaining. It is smartly directed by Michael Gordon. Mr. Price, with his sloping charm and his foulard voice, is just what a really villainous Wall Street operator ought 'to look like. Ella Raines has a lot of sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into...
...Harmonious Majority." Life under the Ekwilist (equalitarian) regime is sketched by Nabokov with a disgusted charm unequaled by contemporary satirists. He has an ear for the obscene overtones of the dictator's loudspeaker: " 'From now on,' continued the tremendously swollen Tyrannosaurus, 'the way to total joy lies open. You will attain it, brothers, by dint of ardent intercourse with one another ... by adjusting ideas and emotions to those of a harmonious majority ... by letting your person dissolve in the virile oneness of the State...