Word: crone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satire of Bostonism takes still another dilution of commercialism in the film adaptation of a play that was a good novel. Progressively each of the interested parties have taken Marquand's Apley and twisted him into an inscrutable New England patriarch (the play) and now into a harmless old crone whose inner conflict is no greater than the woes of a lovelorn son and daughter. Not only is George Apley altered to fit the needs of non-New England audiences, but the aura of Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square is wrenched out of reality and transformed into a cross between...
...star of a French film that got top U.S. reviews-Prison without Bars. The low point came for her last week in a musty, obscure courtroom of Paris' Palace of Justice. Racked by fits of tuberculous coughing, her 25-year-old face seared and drawn like a crone's, she heard herself accused of sleeping with a prize package of Axis agents-Count Galeazzo Ciano, Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz, a long list of others, a Luftwaffe flyer to whom she bore a daughter...
...folksy, the play is based on the Southern mountaineer (not the Old English) ballad of Barbara Allen. For love of high-stepping young Barbara (Carol Stone), a witch boy in the Great Smokies (Richard Hart) has a Conjur Woman make him human. But he can remain so, the old crone tells him, only if Barbara stays faithful to him for a year after their marriage. On the last night of the year, the community,* at last awake to the boy's origin, compels Barbara to sin. (A rape scene that the censors knocked out of the play in Washington...
...innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling of an old crone, the fancy spouting of the stranger are seldom pertinent and never provocative...
...pictures. Nothing came of them. Miss Garson sank into that terrifying limbo, known to many Hollywood newcomers, of the regularly paid, politely Forgotten Woman. Years before, she had injured her spine. It began to hurt her again. She wore one thick and one thin-soled shoe, hobbled like a crone, went outdoors only at night. For months, she says, "My only screen tests were X rays; my best parts, the spine." Doctors advised an "intricate operation...