Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Navajo girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
...Strange Ones (Jean-Pierre Melville; Mayer-Kingsley) are an adolescent brother & sister whose deep affection for each other is colored with inevitable tragedy. Adapted by France's Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel, Les Enfants Terribles, The Strange Ones is a baroque, grotesque, always fascinating excursion into a dark-bright dream world, set off by a glacial commentary delivered in the author's own dry, precise voice...
This twilight zone of murky pathological recesses and phantom feelings is, in Jean-Pierre Melville's direction, as effective cinematically as it is poetic. As in Cocteau's 1948 movie, Les Parents Terribles, the camera roves freely and fluently through the disorder of the children's room. There are odd, feverish screen compositions, e.g., the great, grappling close-up in which, as Agatha tells Elizabeth of her love for Paul, only Agatha's forehead is seen on the screen, with Elizabeth's strange, grey face hanging above it. As the Cocteau children, Nicole Stephane with...
Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie (20th Century-Fox) is a Technicolored cavalcade of small-town Americana as seen as through the eyes of the local barber. Industrious "Professor" Ben Halper (David Wayne) brings his bride Nellie (Jean Peters) to the whistle-stop town of Sevillinois in 1895, and proudly shows her his two-chair parlor. From there on, as the soundtrack resounds to the strain of the title song: 1) Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds...
...Hope, which shared first prize at the Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore in her first picture. The bill may be topped by the most ambitious ($1,000,000) and first Technicolor movie Italy has yet made: The Golden Coach, directed by France's Jean (The River) Renoir, and starring Anna Magnani...