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The rest of director Mary Belle Feltenstein's cast is not up to their standard. Bob Barnard is weak as Mortimer, the sisters' drama-critic nephew. The part is very difficult. Mortimer has to be the sane man in a houseful of lunatics and cadavers, registering a new variety of...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Arsenic and Old Lace | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

"I can't cook," she once said proudly. "I don't know how to wash. I have never sewn a stocking. My husband will have to give me a houseful of servants if he wants a hot dinner and clean clothes now and then." Most women who talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

With nearly all the secrets gone, and the guests along with them, there ended the climactic day of a spotlight-spangled courtship and engagement. And, since it was a White House wedding, it was fitting that the President have the last word. "She'll have a family, just as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: An Unusual Ceremony | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Italy's Stefania Sandrelli, 18, is an actress right down to her toes. Her unforgettable game of footsie with a handsome sailor in the closing scenes of Divorce-Italian Style led to her being cast in the sequel, Seduced and Abandoned. Rosanna Schiaffino, 25, whose Lollobridgework went from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Les Girls | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

On to Three Cars. Younger couples account for a sizable amount of the debt: they want to start with a houseful of goods that older couples used to take years to acquire. Bankers consider debt a logical tool of prosperity, particularly since bad debts represent only 1% of total loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Life-Enriched Consumer | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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