Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Caves and Mountains gives contrasting views of spelunking (in the Pyrenees) and mountaineering (in the French Alps...
...Dunham states in a note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). My Three Angels: Sam and Bella Spewack's TV adaptation of their own Broadway adaptation of Albert Husson's La Cuisine des Anges, a bizarre comedy about convicts in French Guiana...
Holdovers from last season still going strong: My Fair Lady and The Music Man (musicals), La Plume de Ma Tante (French revue), A Raisin in the Sun (a moving play set in Chicago's Harlem...
...judges from this film, proletarian life in Soviet Russia seems to be the same as working class life in the U.S. (At least in their movie version). There is none of the sordidness that is found in Italian and French realist movies. But simple creatures, who are happy or sad according to the external conditions of their lives aren't very extraordinary. This Russian attempt at a Paddy Chayevsky "slice of life" story is not very exciting...