Word: jezebel
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Hollywood movies of the '30s and '40s left no doubt about the Southern woman: she was a Jezebel. In fact, the traditional problem is not rebellion but "niceness," or what Journalist Florence King calls "the compulsive need to be sweet." A Southern woman is obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native...
...crown of Days of Our Lives which also boasts the brightest writers and the best acting. Susan is strongly tipped to win a daytime Emmy. If she does not, it will mean she is too good. Explains Writer Patricia Falken-Smith: "It's tough for a Jezebel type to win." Susan never really stops being Julie: "I find myself dreaming the way she would." Of Doug, no doubt. Of course, the reason may be that Bill Hayes, who plays Doug, is right there beside Susan. A year ago, they were married in real life, much to the writers...
...Jezebel, with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, at 8 p.m.; and Conflict, with Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Green-street, at 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday...
...Dames, with its kaleidoscopic chorines demonstrating "the woman as object"; Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, playing a liberated female journalist, only to fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object of contempt to feminists rivaled only by Marlene Dietrich's trudge into the desert in Morocco...
...Miss Fraser's acerbic portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Nonetheless, the author marshals her evidence generously enough to allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves to Mary's character over the centuries. Her Mary emerges neither as a Jezebel nor as a saint, but as a high-spirited woman who was brave, rather romantic, and not very bright...