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...Shadows (Gena; Lion International) was made by Actor John Cassavetes, a young Stanislavsky buff long known in show business as a watered-down Brando-on-the-rocks. After a brief boom in television and B movies, Cassavetes in 1956 set up his own actors' studio in Manhattan. There one night his group improvised a scene that suddenly "exploded with life." Cassavetes had a wild idea: Why not improvise a full-length movie...
...High Cost of Loving (MGM) is a clever little watercooler farce with kitchenette complications. The hero (José Ferrer) and heroine (Gena Rowlands) are a nice young suburban couple. Two cars, no kids, both work-she in a gift shop ("It's For Them"), he in industry (purchasing department). One morning she happily announces that after nine years of trying they are finally going to have a baby. At work he prematurely passes the cigars and takes the joshing. ("Here's a man who has proved that anything can be done if you keep on trying," cracks...
...fault is not Robinson's. As Jerry Kingsley, a well-to-do. 53-year-old widower who falls in love with a girl of 24 (Gena Rowlands), Robinson is neither cinematic nor Little-Caesarish. He plays with feeling and skill. Age-conscious to begin with, made brutally aware of the perils of marriage as he proceeds, he is ruefully realistic, but always with an ear cocked for romance. The part comes off; the play does...
MacKinley was named end slong with Dare Kankin of Purdue and ahead of Exi Frutig of Michigan and Gena Goodresult of Boston College...
...Author of La Gena delle Befle which came to the U. S. as The Jest and starred John Barrymore: later lathered with theatric lines by Umberto Giordano and given as an opera...