Word: demongeot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proctor, plots to have his wife hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically Gallic seduction scenes that are only implied in the play. The blatant lust of Abigail, brilliantly and demonically played by Mylene Demongeot, completely erases the more insidious evil of the original character...
Miller's ideas were caught. The camera, moreover, has let some fresh air and country scenery into a drama that often seemed stuffy and stage-bound, and the actors-principally Yves Montand as the hero and Mylene Demongeot as the leading witch-seem to play with more freedom and expressiveness than the original cast did. But Sartre, like Miller, has failed to extricate the essential lesson, the inmost horror of the episode...
Married. Mylene Demongeot, 22, French cinemactress (Bonjour Tristesse); and movie Photographer Henri Coste, 32; both for the first time; in Palavas-les Flots, France...