Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life to Live comes as close to translating the French titleSa Vie Vivre as it does to presenting a convincing character--not quite close enough. Director Jean-Luc Godord (Breathless) casts his wife, Anna Karina, in a difficult rile. She must persuade us that although she leaves her husband and child to become a prostitute, she is irreproachable. No matter what she does, the movie implies that, like Suzie Wong and Irma La Douce she remains somehow pure...
MARY, MARY. A soupcon of wisdom, a lot of wit are laced into Jean Kerr's zingy comedy about marriage-on-the-rocks. Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson star in the screen version of the play...
...LIFE TO LIVE. A young wife turned prostitute seeks her strangely satisfying salvation in the pursuit of pleasure, a racy theme developed with unblemished artistry by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, maker of Breathless...
...ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by Jean Guiart. 461 pages. Golden Press. $25. This is Volume IV of the extraordinary "museum without walls" proposed by Andre Malraux and sponsored by the French government, which will eventually run to 40 volumes encompassing the whole of man's arts. Lavish in its illustrations, the present volume catches all the expressive, primitive power of Oceanic art while detailing its surprising variety and the age-old magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks...
...with dark red hair, a smile that could win a war or at least make one worth losing, and "a light in her eye"-as one London critic rhapsodized-"which would melt the heart of a gun dog." At the moment, she is starring in the London production of Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary, and, as another critic summarized the reaction of all, "the night belongs to Miss Smith-laconic and nervous, superb in comedy, touching in pathos, a gem of an actress, a dish...