Word: enchantress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is more of a loss than a gain ; for Miss Barrymore's incorrigible abilities as an enchantress, however inappropriate to the role, were practically all that made the play shine. Moreover, Miss Davis is not old enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust...
...social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized these horse-&-buggyish ardors in the road-sterish form of It, thus provided a racy vehicle for Cinemactress Clara...