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...your life." After an uneasy pause, the man added: "Let me tell you, you haven't missed a thing." Wherever Teddy went, he won the women. The old ones wanted to mother him, the young ones wanted to marry him. "Isn't he a doll!" shrieked secretaries from Revere to Westfield. In Chicopee a beaming group from the Polish Women's Citizens' Club listened to his talk, then rushed forward to chat with him over coffee and cupcakes. Cried Lucy Wisniowski: "I love that Kennedy family...
...camera could record a scene like Still Life with Paper Moon: a mutilated doll stares blindly at a Nevelson-like collection of wooden chair legs and newel posts, one of which supports an abandoned bird's nest, while a paper ball-the kind that used to pop out of old-fashioned valentines-dangles above. Flaking paint, wood grain, wormhole and lathe scar are meticulously recorded in sharp focus, yet there is an eerie, aching loneliness about the scene that no camera could ever convey. In Lady Fair the mood is pure fun. with its symbolic scrap of lace...
...glowing girl. But the film intends to show more than this. It intends to show a crise de I'ãme, "a profound transformation of the being." It doesn't. For one thing, Actress Marchand's face is no more capable of transformation than a kewpie doll's. For another, Director Varda suddenly twists the heroine's harm into a happy ending which sentimentally suggests that every shroud has a silver lining...
...kept the French title, The King's Mare (January). The Beauty Part, S. J. Perelman's mad satire on culture-crazed Americans, is finally moving toward Broadway (Dec. 26) after trying out at Pennsylvania's Bucks County Playhouse in the summer of 1961. Opposite Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Van Johnson will play an actor who is also a LIFE photographer in Garson Kanin's Come On Strong...
...Baby Doll. Films like How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch made her vague but sparkling smile and her shrill, excited voice the universal definition of Baby Doll. And she learned to speak in the voice of the girl she was supposed to be with memorable success...