Word: countess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female - except for Count Jolimaitre (Ty McConnell), perform with just the right note of light camp. They all but twirl hypothetical mustaches. The songs by Don Pippin and Steve Brown have a rollicking charm. When Mrs. Tiffany (Mary Jo Catlett) embarks on her fantasy of "My daughter the Countess," she is aquiver with such an exuberance of social-climbing greed that one almost hopes she makes...
...King in New York is regarded in some critical quarters as perhaps the worst movie ever made by a distinguished film maker. Its release in the U.S. for the first time provides no reason to dispute that judgment, although one might nominate Chaplin's most recent picture, The Countess from Hong Kong (1967), as an alternate selection. King does have a certain extrinsic interest, however, as a significant act in the larger drama of its creator's celebrity...
Come with me, my little countess...
...chorus girl; in Warsaw, there was the Harman family-he romanced the two daughters, titillated the mother, excited the son, who was afflicted, as Rubinstein quaintly puts it, "by a chronic physical deficiency which resulted in his inability to make love to a woman." In Paris, a countess eased up to the piano as he was playing Chopin and kissed him square on the lips "with a wild passion," while her husband dozed on the sofa...
...delivery to flat recitation. Also making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49, seemed to be posing for a camera rather than playing to an audience. Of the stage veterans, Dorothy Loudon and Mary Louise Wilson are tartly expert comediennes, and Jan Miner is wonderfully hilarious as a countess addicted to husbands (five) and alcohol (90-proof...