Word: eycks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli has a therapeutic narcosis behind...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will inherit the show Jan. 29. In the exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan's Albert Ten Eyck Gardner advances a theory on the evolution of Homer's style that might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same...
...Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he was forced to hang Rembrandt drawings inside cupboard doors. Other artists in the collection included Rubens, Dürer. Michelangelo, Van Ruysdael. Goya. Titian, Van Gogh and Rodin; among the best works were Jan van Eyck's The Three Marias, Bruegel's Tower of Babel. Experts put the value at more than $25 million...
...more than the usual ingredients of the standard Hollywood thriller-it is based on a mystery novel by James Hadley Chase-but Director Denys de la Patellière has prepared it to the king's taste. He tells the story of a wealthy drunk (Peter Van Eyck) who one day informs the greedy salope (Michele Morgan) to whom he is married that he is going to commit suicide in a few minutes. But if he does that, she realizes instantly, she will not be able to collect the 300 million francs for which his life is insured...
...Young married Anita Ten Eyck O'Keeffe. sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe; their only daughter, Eleanor, was killed in a private airplane crash...