Word: holden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CONGRATULATIONS ON TIME'S FEB. 27 ASTUTE AND KEENLY OBSERVANT ARTICLE ON BILL HOLDEN. BUT HE IS STILL AN ENIGMA...
Picnic. William Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Holden) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball while the ladies (Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession (TIME...
Picnic. William Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Holden) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball, while the ladies (Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession. (TIME...
...would have taken a remarkable cast to bring these proceedings to life. With only one or two notable exceptions, however, the actors are anything but remarkable. William Holden should never have been picked to play the indigent athlete since he is not only some ten years too old for the part, but also because he is very much the wrong type. To a role which requires a great deal of animal magnetism he brings only the clean-cut charm appropriate to a thoroughly tamed ideal husband...
Such tensions and complexities are far from rare in Hollywood. What is rare is the driving sincerity of William Holden, his almost complete lack of pretentiousness, his energetic blend of talent and intelligence, his simple human decency to other people. One of his directors sums him up as "the typical American boy who wanted to become a slob, but couldn't make the grade...