Word: dee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor Romanoff (John Gavin), son of the Russian ambassador, and Juliet Mouls-worth (Sandra Dee), daughter of the American ambassador...
...same back-slapping Americans and tractor-worshipping Russians who have populated every cold war farce, the viewer may well decide that what the world needs even more than international accord is some new international jokes. But the Ninotchka-era jokes are presented with considerable spirit, and Actors Gavin and Dee, the missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers them with practiced waggery. When the town-hall clock goes out of order, he laments that "our national tragedy is that we have been occupied by every nation except the Swiss...
...invested a total of $348,800.000 in the four media in 1960, a bare 1% increase over 1959. There was only minor reshuffling among the top ten: American Home Products (Equanil, Anacin, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Foods) and General Mills (Wheaties, Bisquick, Betty Crocker baking mixes) each advanced two notches; Lever Brothers and Ford fell back...
...ghetto involved here is Chicago's black belt, where Scriptwriter Hansberry lived as a child. The hero (Sidney Poitier), his wife (Ruby Dee), his twelve-year-old son (Stephen Perry), his mother (Claudia McNeil) and his sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life...
...that pent-up, gotta-get-outa-here feeling is essential to the story. Regrettably, the actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production-often seem to be shouting past the spectator, as though still playing from habit to the back row, balcony. Only Actress Dee, as the wife, projects her existence without hollering her head off. Actress Sands, as the sister, has a wonderful tomboy charm and most of the funny lines: "I'm not interested," she bellows at her Nigerian boy friend, "in being somebody's little episode in America." But Actress McNeil...