Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crest of the Wave (M-G-M). Dancer Gene Kelly makes millions for his studio with his musicals, and when he chooses to give his feet a rest, his histrionic head makes pretty good sense too. In 1950 he threw all his sane, straight self into a sane, straight part, was one of the, big things that made Black Hand one of the best "little pictures" of the year. In Crest of the Wave he has done it again...
...dirt: a young girl (Peggy Ann Garner) comes to New York on the make to visit her uncle (Otto Kruger), and meets a famous Broadway producer (Van Heflin). Since Heflin's wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town, he rather indiscreetly lets the girl use their apartment to write in while he is at work. The day his wife gets home, they find the girl strung up in the bedroom and a suicide note on the typewriter table...
...ETTA, translated by Alison Brothers (147 pp.; Messner; $3), is a contrasting companion piece from the same perfumed pen. It is a moony, brilliant bit of boy-meets-girlishness, more or less what might have happened if Stendhal had been writing for Sam Goldwyn. The ideal cast: Gary Grant, Gene Tierney and Audrey Hepburn. The plot: Tierney, a high-fashion cutie, comes for a visit at the country house of Grant, her fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney won't understand...
...Americans, out for a shoot in the highlands, happen on a town named Brigadoon. One of them (Gene Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern...
...players, Van Johnson, as the other American, is a total miscast. Cyd Charisse chores through some tiresome choreography without much zest. And Gene Kelly, an amiable and efficient commercial hoofer, makes another unfortunate attempt to be the poor man's Nijinsky...