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...with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately saves everyone else by giving herself in concubinage to the lustful Khan (Mike Mazurki). Flora Robson, Anna Lee and Mildred Dunnock view her sacrifice with tolerance, lining up against Margaret to plug the thesis that in moments of stress a hard-headed broad may be more blessed than a God-fearing prude. It's worth a second thought but hardly a whole movie...
...weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction is sometimes muddy, in contrast to the rest of the cast. Carlotte Wilsen, as the ghostly Miss Jessel can be both terrifying, when she calls to Flora, and tragic, in her beautiful schoolroom song...
...Minnelli, 19, her husband Vincente's daughter by his marriage to Judy Garland, opened at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel there was Denise with a lustily applauding troop of 85 show-biz and cafesociety friends. Not that the gal who knocked them dead in Flora the Red Menace needed a private cheering section. After a dozen or so songs, that old belter Ethel Merman rushed over to embrace Liza. "She was absolutely fabulous!" cried Ethel. "That child is so good...
...excellent cast, which perfectly weaves the shadowy modern drama of sin and expiation. Dame Sybil Thorndike is Amy, the steely dowager who has spent 35 years "designing" her son's life. Paul Scofield plays Harry, the restless, half-mad son who bursts asunder the conventional family gathering, and Flora Robson is Agatha, the all-knowing aunt ("When the loop in time comes," she warns, "the hidden :i revealed, and the spectres show themselves...
...Died. Flora Mae Jackson, 35, known as "Baby Flo" to U.S. carnival goers, billing herself as "The World's Largest Woman" and tipping the scales at a fantastic 840 Ibs.; of heart disease; in Jacksonville...