Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden...
That I walk with a sweet and girlish...
...letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench's Maria, Dudley Jones's Feste, John Neville's Sir Andrew all bring something personal to their roles, and Barbara Jefford's Viola is attractively girlish whether in man's dress or woman...
...looked at the monotonous lines of smiling faces he moodily reflected on the custom of bringing girls to football games. He was not alone in these reflections, however, for when Sebbie returned, his upper lip painted in the moustache left by an orange drink, some of the girlish smiles above him turned to frowns and giggles. There dawned the uneasy suspicion in Vag that he was being marked as a pervert...
...This Be Me?" asked Cinemactress Sophia Loren in Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect...