Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, much of the movie needs no supplementary conversation. The pantomime of Jean-Louis Barrault is eloquent; the bluster, cunning, and charm of Pierre Brassuer is largely expression of hands, mouth, eyes and the intonations of voice; and the earthy beauty of Arletty defies description. It is Arletty, and my changing impressions of her throughout the movie, that I remember most vividly. For the first time in my experience, an actress who seemed plain at the beginning became more and more beautiful as the story wove its way to an ending, until I found myself not consciously seeing her physically...
Physiologists are even changing their minds about what hunger is. Stomach contractions, the old scapegoat, do not explain hunger, because a man gets hungry even when his whole stomach has been removed. At Harvard's School of Public Health, Biochemist Jean Mayer has found evidence that "feeling hungry" depends on the amount of sugar in the blood. He says this goes up after eating, and the eater no longer feels hungry. But a few hours later it goes down, and he wants food. (In diabetics, the changes are more complicated...
Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...
...presence of wholesome Jean Peters amid Monroe's calisthenics is an unnecessary intrusion. Miss Peters can act a little, too, so there is no possible excuse for her being in the film...
Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...