Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quicksand & Old Corsets. Marlon Brando Jr. was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., the third child, first son of a salesman of limestone products. His mother, described years later by Actress Stella Adler as "a very beautiful, a heavenly, lost, girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very...
...Greece's King Otho (son of her former lover, King Ludwig). After swapping Otho for an Albanian general, Jane proceeded to Syria, where a "very possessive" young Arab "swept her . . . into the black Bedouin tents of his encampment." Jane was 47, still beautiful, and bursting with ''girlish excitement and rapture" when she settled down for keeps with a sheik. She lived contentedly in the desert for 27 years, "milking the camels, serving her husband . . . washing his feet" and relishing the joys of passive living...
...Hepburn, who, as the mermaid of Jean Giraudoux's rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
...divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...
There is no doubting Jennifer's popularity, but no indorsing it either. She never seems very girlish or charming, nor can Janet Blair bring much beyond looks to the role. The play has bright moments and agreeable lines, but. for the most part, where it is not determinedly cute it is studiously carnal. It is perhaps enough by now that Mr. Herbert has turned youth into a commodity without also making innocence a gimmick...