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...children died in infancy, but among the survivors, ambitiously christened for the Renaissance greats, were Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Raphaelle. Both Rembrandt and Raphaelle went into the family business. Rembrandt traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a glossy, Continental technique, became highly successful and portrayed the likes of Dolley Madison and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Raphaelle, a seeming failure, had drunk himself to death by 1825, at the age of 51. Only in this century have his hypnotic trompe-l'oeil still lifes belatedly captured the public...
Only a handful of the festival films are nonmusicals, but they too are strictly Celluloid City. In Kitty Foyle, Ginger's apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...
...since Dolley Madison has the chatelaine of the White House dressed as elegantly, entertained as imaginatively, or so clearly seen both functions as a creative contribution to the success of an Administration. Jackie Kennedy's bouffant hair and back-tilted hats, simple cloth coats and slim-hipped sports slacks have been pirated by women the world over. Few men or women in the world today exercise such influence...
...expert performance in telling how she and her advisory committee have redecorated the White House. Without notes or prompting, she showed a connoisseur's knowledge of every antique and objet d'art that came into view (only one scene had to be refilmed; Jackie momentarily confused a Dolley Madison sofa with one of Nelly Custis'). She easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge of intimate White House history. The Green Room, she noted, "used to be the dining room, and here Jefferson gave his famous dinners and introduced such exotic...
...enemy throughout the war. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts were so opposed to "Mr. Madison's War" that there was open talk of secession. Madison had no control over Congress, tolerated incompetent subordinates in his Cabinet. A whispering campaign was launched suggesting that he was impotent and that Dolley was unfaithful. Worst of all, Madison suffered the humiliation of having to flee Washington before a British army, which casually put the torch to the White House. At war's end, Madison did not win a single major concession from the British in the settlement...