Word: girlhood
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...Wreath of Roses is not the "perfect novel" that she has confessed she would like to write, but it contains three extremely well-drawn characters: two young women and a baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous...
...wild Irish heroine, given to visions and shakes, whose history includes girlhood in a Cork bordello where a gelded viscount taught her manners...
...scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the fashion, Tilly barges into the well-arranged life of Chipping Lodge to create havoc. Mrs. Brocken has invited her because she has a guilty recollection of having, in girlhood days, maliciously prevented Tilly from accepting the one marriage offer ever to come her way. Now, as recompense, quixotic Mrs. Brocken proposes to turn all her money over to poor, nasty Tilly...
Flowers & Cows. At 55, Rebecca West is greying and has put on weight which makes her look stocky rather than stout. Vestiges of her girlhood beauty now light a face that is impressive with mature intelligence. But, since she has little interest in dress, she often looks as if somebody had thrown her clothes on her as she rushed for the train...
There is no really had acting in the movie: it's all standard, mass-produced, with always the right gesture or tone of voice for the right emotion, all as dull as the day-before-yesterday's newspaper. Maureen O'Hara is as bosomy an example of pretty American girlhood as one could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human...