Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bestselling books in Europe is a novel about doctors. Its hero, Jean Nérac, tells his own first-person story as a student at the Paris Faculty of Medicine...
Comedian Skelton plays with fine restraint; his horid face wears a look of such battered averageness that it is hard to see in it the TV clown. As the typical suburban wife, Jean Hagen is as tersely true as the quotient of a questionnaire brought to life. Best of all, the picture is about something, and (thanks to Director Don Weis) never drops its sincere regard for its subject just to pick up a quick laugh. In mass-conscious Hollywood, it took courage to maintain the point that comedy is not always well served by funny lines...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit comedy about stagestruck adolescence; with Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film, a colorful, breathtakingly big production based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 bestseller; starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...
...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...