Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
...wins high marks for theatricality and comic invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes: a beach picnic, as airily languid as the colored soap bubbles blown by a Mexican girl, and a muddled wedding party...
Sing Till Tomorrow (by Jean Lowenthal) folded after the most Scrooge-like reviews within yuletide memory. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr objected with equal irritation that half the play could not be heard and the other half could. Brooks Atkinson of the Times described the play as "solemn gibberish." Sing Till Tomorrow was worse than just plain bad: it was fuzzily and pretentiously so, and with acting that matched the script. Involved were a druggist, his second wife and his son, who sinned with the wife and wrote a play attacking the father. "His pitch is a stammer...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit com edy 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...