Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder how much of a stretch the role of Linda was for Griffith. In a recent interview, the talented actress said she "didn't know that 6 million Jews were killed," and astutely realized, "that's a lot of people...
...What's a war for, if not to hold on to what we love?" asks secretary Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith), as she gazes soulfully into the eyes of her boss and lover, World War II spy Ed Leland (Michael Douglas...
Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...
...spite of her dimness--or perhaps because of it--Griffith renders a convincing performance as a perspicacious woman whose intelligence is often masked by a ditzy facade. Her work lends a great deal of warmth and humor to the film, which nonetheless does not diminish the impact of the appalling reality of Hitler's regime...
Shining Through Directed by David Seltzer Starring Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas Twentieth Century...