Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never a man to make things easy for himself, Director Hitchcock has tried in Stage Fright to work within the discipline of a tricky story conceit: his heroine (Jane Wyman) plays romantic nip & tuck simultaneously with a suspected murderer (Richard Todd) and the Scotland Yard man (Michael Wilding) who is tracking him down. Hitchcock exploits the situation as much for chuckles as for chills. The result is an entertaining show, handsomely produced against a London background, studded with effective scenes and enlivened by an excellent cast that includes an uncannily young and beautiful Marlene Dietrich and able British Comedian Alistair...
...unalloyed virtues of the picture lie in the quality of its performances. Jane Wyman is completely winning as a student actress who tries to clear a murder suspect by impersonating the maid of a musicomedy star. Wilding plays the detective with quiet charm, and Todd's acting as the suspect will not let down moviegoers who liked him in The Hasty Heart. Comedian Sim makes his artful most of the heroine's eccentric father. If anyone steals the show, it is Veteran Dietrich. Dressed to kill and chanting languorous ballads in a husky off-key, she creates...
Three members of the class of '51 will run for vice-president--Ann Cummings, Jean O'Brien, and Cynthia Williams. Other candidates are the following: secretary--Phobe Crampton, Margaret Fechheimer, and Jean McCollum, all sophomores; treasurer--Susan Anderson, Elizabeth Bibber, Ruth Prager, Elizabeth Tucker, Mary Jane Wade, and Gloria Wagstaff...
Appointment of Jane Larson '52, as chairman of Radcliffe's Community Service Committee headed yesterday's Student Council agenda at the Annex...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...