Word: holden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maggie McNamara as a fetching and demure ingenue is picked up by man-of-the-world William Holden, who lures her into his apartment. Socialite David Niven enters to aid in the seduction. And though no more dissolute and jaded a rake could be found east of Fifth Avenue, Miss McNamara remains secure in her faith that feminine right will conquer masculine might. By the end of the film, the rake is reclaimed and virtue triumphant...
...Romance is for bobbysoxers," she declares, and wards off the amatory Holden by telling him "You're not passionate, you're just hungry." A moment later, she announces kissing to be fun and proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this...
...Founders John and Anne Holden, both 42, all this was not meant to be just an easy way of getting themselves a campus. Both former teachers at Vermont's Putney School, they had long since come to the conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring...
...this too much to ask of students? Not at all, says John Holden. "Work is nothing new. Coeducation is nothing new. Making your own entertainment is nothing new. This school will just be a transition between home and college that provides students with some of the inner resources of which many people have been robbed by easy modern living...
Stalag 17. Director Billy Wilder's rowdily entertaining adaptation of the Broadway comedy-melodrama about a Nazi prison camp; with William Holden (TIME...