Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean, the valet, Eugene Gervasi gives an attractive, albeit uneven, performance. The obvious charm which Strindberg has poured into the character is visible, in Gervasi's rendering, but the cultivated polish and the sinister selfishness underneath are not. Nevertheless, when the script offers him a sharp line, Gervasi delivers it with grace and a fine sense of timing...
Second to Fernandel himself, what makes the film come over so well is the excellent script by Gerald Cartlier. Never does it lag and never does he overwork a gag. Director Jean Boyer also deserves credit for this excellent bubbling flow that is the strength of the picture...
...makers of this movie are concerned, in a spirit not completely commercial, with authenticity. The whole picture-except perhaps for the Hollywood ending-carries a strong conviction to the moviegoer that what he is seeing is really happening; and the conviction is strongest when the camera is watching Jean Gabin, who is just right as un gros legume-a big vegetable...
PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (192 pp.)-Jean Kerr-Doubleday...
...Jean Kerr is a kind of wrong-way Anne Morrow Lindbergh flying not to but from contemplative solitude. Like Gift from the Sea, Please Don't Eat the Daisies offers a busy suburban wife's observations on life, but where Author Lindbergh listened for wisdom in the humming of a sea shell, Author Kerr listens for gags in the clatter of a typewriter. She has brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell...