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...Cutler and Pola Chasman as Lorraine Sheldon were the most able, a happy chance considering the amount of plot and dialogue that depends on them. Barbara Nathan as an adoring, breathless, and retired Lizzy Borden, makes more of her short part than anyone else in the east. She is genteel and delicately loony with the greatest charm...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tear-jerker ; with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tearjerker, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...twelve he was taken away from the genteel and "very private" school in the Irish countryside, where he was loafing happily, and enrolled in Dublin's cheaper Central Model Boys' School, whose students were largely Catholic sons of "petty shopkeepers." Overnight, Shaw, who had been baptized in the Protestant Episcopal Church of Ireland, became "a boy with whom no Protestant young gentleman would speak or play," and he burned with "a shame which was more or less a psychosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tearjerker, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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