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Hungarian Playwright Molnár works this all out like a game of chess with delightful ambiguity, some suspense and a saucy wit. Everything depends on the two leads. In his jealous anxiety, Bedford can twitch his nose like a mouse scenting cheese. He affects a synthetic Russian accent that is weirdly comic and as the disguised suitor, he woos his wife with the ardor of a drawing-room Cossack...
...didn't star in any of their art films, did you?" the pathologically jealous French instructor says, interrogating his coy step-daughter. That's the school of "art" to which Heart Throbs belongs: the sort you might judge to be of considerable artistic merit--unless someone you knew were mixed up in them...
...jealous, too thin...
...partners and opponents in crime. As Brenda, Patty Woo moves gracefully from the woman abandoned by her man to the tough Mae Westish cookie who is determined to take her revenge. When Sable introduces her to the Harlstons as a student at a finishing school near Oxford, the jealous Brenda snaps "But I'm not finished yet." Larry Schneider's gutsy characterization of Harry Mercer is not quite so well developed as Woo's, but with his hardbitten face and sly movements, Schneider fits the image of the life of crime personified...
Supremely Jealous. Haines portrays Marcia as an ill-tempered, domineering harridan who tried and often succeeded in tyrannizing not only Wilson's staff but the Prime Minister himself. Haines describes Williams "shrewishly denouncing the Prime Minister in front of civil servants," commandeering his official car and driver as if it were her own and once punishing him for waking her up with a phone call in the middle of the night by returning it an hour later "just to see how he liked it." She bullied the No. 10 staff, Haines claims, firing girls whom she found too poised...