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Plump, red-haired Ljuba Welitsch, 35, was welcomed to the Met as a "curvaceous and arresting Salome" by the Met's onetime No. 1 glamor girl, retired Geraldine Farrar, 67. In a glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
...Stage, with its own pleasantly romantic, stage-struck air, helps to explain why show business, in good times or bad, retains its .own peculiar brand of glamor...
Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...
...artlessness. It tells of a crotchety parish priest who, tired of having his housekeeper's solemn, scrubbed-looking niece around the rectory, sets about sprucing her up as a means to getting her spliced. In the end, he succeeds in transforming her into such a glamor girl that she gets the very man she wants...
...individual kudos, few critics could ignore Olivier for his direction, production and acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...