Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
...Want to Live! (Figaro; United Artists). "When you hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found...
Idler's best efforts were its two 1951-52 productions: Ibsen's A Doll's House and Clare Booth Luce's The Women. But Idler was destined to inhabit the level of mediocrity: it rarely produced a poor show, but it never produced a really excellent...
...Doll's House. Then came an even harder personal blow. Pregnant with her first child in 1943, Cinemactress Tierney went to the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the troops, almost immediately afterward came down with German measles. In the often-expected result, her newborn daughter Daria was physically beautiful but so mentally retarded that she will require lifetime institutional care...
...father, the Aga Khan, sternly opposed another movie-actress marriage after Aly's divorce from Rita Hayworth. With her need for stability unmet. Gene's anxiety grew worse. In New York she walked out on a TV commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, the part of a woman squashed by the strictures of society and an overbearing husband. The anxiety had reached the point of making her really sick, soon led to a critical emotional breakdown...