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...like new dresses, to be donned and doffed at her pleasure. Seeing a fellow that attracts her, she's like a child looking at a new doll...
...bears down on a famed actor she has not been introduced to. "You're Robbert Harley Hedges, aren't you?" Actor Hedges (Herbert Marshall) achieves a smile. "I've played them all," she airily lets him know, as one trouper to another. "Nora in The Doll's House, Madame Ranevsky in The Cherry Orchard" He: "Where was all this?" She: "With the Mummers in Ordway, Vermont...
...Voelker, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court) suffers from inexpert writing but describes in fascinating detail the elaborate, unpredictable mechanism that controls the outwardly simple scales of justice during a murder trial. A fact that has not harmed sales is that the case involves the rape of a luscious doll (she is so sexy that the defense lawyer orders her to wear a girdle on the witness stand so as not to antagonize prudish jurors...
...SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH puts a grim new angle on the old triangle. Annette is a fragile doll of a woman who has had a critical heart disease for more than 13 years; in Meredith's phrase, she is "a dying something never dead." In death's slow embrace she remains beautiful and virginal, tended in the peaceful New England countryside by a dedicated aunt and a Negro cook. This sunnily funereal household is subsidized out of the thin pocketbook of Annette's husband James, who shares one room in New York with his mistress and dreams...
Judging by Dean Pike's conclusions that "how the viewer receives the experience [of seeing the movie Baby Doll) depends upon his intent," housekeeping is going to be a snap from here on out. If my intent isn't to see the dirt on the kitchen floor-well, it just isn't there...