Word: davila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). ABC presents its own production of The Diary of Anne Frank, with Diane Davila as Anne, supported by Max von Sydow, Lilli Palmer, Viveca Lindfors, Donald Pleasence, Theodore Bikel, Marisa Pavan...
Their female counterparts, Hermia and Helena, emerge woefully lopsided in performance. Diana Davila's Hermia has an unpleasant voice that an occasion indulges in pure squeal- ing; and she doesn't seem to understand what she is mouthing much of the time. Dorothy Tristan's Helena shows a wider vocal range and considerable skill as a farceuse. When she pleads to Demetrius, "Give me leave...to follow you," she waddles on her knees with comic aggressiveness; and when Lysander describes himself as "touching now the point of human skill," she instinctively grasps her breasts in self-protection...