Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career. The nerve chart of a stage-struck ex-soldier who goes from cliché to cliché, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance...
...reviewer reiterates a hoary cliché that is excruciatingly provoking to actual...
Career. The nerve chart of a stagestruck ex-soldier who goes from cliché to cliche, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance...
...debatable. Shirley's rivals are far more varied than "Gadge" Kazan suggests. The newcomers-and there seem to be more interesting ones in Hollywood these days than in years-are not necessarily all girl-next-door types, not all funny, not all "complete women." Inevitably, certain new Hollywood clichés have developed. Where it was preferable for yesterday's star to have been discovered at a soda fountain, it is better for today's model to have been found at the Actors' Studio. Where yesterday's glamour girl was expected to bathe in goat...
Around this intrinsically fascinating story, Author Flavia Anderson has wrapped the bulky burlap of 50-odd volumes of research. Cliché-laden and crammed with minor figures, the book has a narrative pace roughly that of a Yangtze barge hauled upstream. But it is a historical trip worth taking for readers who can match Author Anderson's labor of love with a love of labor...