Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's most attractive scores, ranging from satiric little ditties like Progress to the full-throated tunefulness of Green-Up Time...
...Saxon Charm (Universal-International) is an adaptation of the novel by Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman about the strange character and conduct of a Broadway producer. Eric Busch (John Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists...
...fully enjoy The Saxon Charm, it would be necessary to believe in the writer as a writer and to be pretty thoroughly taken in by Mr. Saxon's charm. Since Novelist Wakeman is not exactly a dazzling writer himself, he has not created a very interesting one; nor is John Payne equipped by nature to play an author with much plausibility. Since Saxon's conduct, 90% of the time, is about as uncharming as possible, the problem of selling him to an audience ought to be tougher than it turns...
...blue eyes, a hard jaw and a nice sense of timing. Under McKenzie's direction, Drew workers exerted no visible pressure. But the invisible pressure was irresistible. It built up gradually day by day as McKenzie carefully organized "spontaneous" gatherings of delegates, then called in Drew to radiate charm and say nothing...
...River is not only a fulfillment for Director Hawks, it is a high promise for Actor Montgomery Clift, who plays the thorny young man with a fresh blend of toughness and charm. This is Cliffs first picture, though his second, The Search (TIME, March 29), was released ahead of it. No one "discovered" Monty Clift jerking sodas or selling shoes. Twenty-eight years old this month, he has spent half his life in the theater ( The Skin of Our Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent...