Word: diabolicalness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice...
Diabolic Ties. It was in this setting that Proust met the original of Swann, Charles Haas, who referred to himself as "the only Jew ever to be accepted by Parisian society without being immensely rich." Perhaps the most decadent and diabolical habitue of the salons was Comte Robert de Montesquieu...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin's songs, Pearl Bailey's lusty singing and Sammy Davis Jr.'s diabolic portrayal of Sportin' Life pep up Sam Goldwyn's ponderous, $7,000,000 film version (in wide-screen Todd-AO and lush color) of America's...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin's songs, Pearl Bailey's lusty singing and Sammy Davis Jr.'s diabolic portrayal of Sportin' Life pep up Sam Goldwyn's sometimes ponderous $7,000,000 attempt to film (in wide-screen Todd-AO and lush color) the No...
Died. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, 83, seadog commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the tense years before Pearl Harbor, who defied threats from the Japanese without shooting at them, although his own U.S.S. Augusta was twice bombed, demanded and got $2,200,000 indemnity when the Japanese sank (1937...