Word: grushenka
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...pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children each morning in The King...
...bomb Schell," as the movie columnists like to call her, at the U.S. moviegoing public in her first Hollywood picture-a $2,500,000 adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, in which, as Hollywood would have it, the first lady of the European screen will be seen in a role (Grushenka) that was originally intended for Marilyn Monroe. Maria Schell has already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating out the final decisions and the finishing touches on the film-the anxious countdown before...
...full of famous and beautiful women. "But when Maria walked in," says an actor who was there, "it was as if the sun had come out. and a lot of stars looked suddenly pretty dim." Producer Pandro Berman (who had just lost Marilyn Monroe for the part of Grushenka, and could not be sure that Warner Bros, would let Carroll Baker play it), took one startled look at Maria and got on the phone to Director Brooks. "I just saw Grushenka." After the party, Maria happened to meet Actor Brynner in the lobby of her hotel. He took one startled...
When M-G-M Producer Pandro Berman decided to film Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he thought wistfully of blonde Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who has often confessed a yen to play the role of Grushenka. "Frankly, I don't expect her to be in it," he said. "She would probably want too much money, and besides, I hear she is going to have a baby.'' To all questions of diapers and Dostoevsky, Marilyn murmured unsweetened nothings...
...displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...