Word: kaminska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Czech film The Shop on Main Street was released in 1966, Ida Kaminska, 68, long a distinguished member of the Yiddish theater in her native Poland, became a familiar figure on the western side of the Iron Curtain. Now Miss Kaminska has decided she likes the West as much as the West likes her. Along with four members of her family, she flew from Poland to Vienna. Next stop is Israel, where she will be a guest of the government for a few weeks. She plans to come to the U.S. later this year and remain for good...
...only has your reporter demoted Ida Kaminska from Best Actress to Best Supporting Actress, but he has shown his naivete in other ways. The choice of A man for All Seasons for Best Picture, Actor, and Director he called "a depressing surprise." Whether or not the selection was "depressing" is a matter of opinion, but if your man knew his stuff, he would hardly have found the outcome a surprise. For the past 16 years the Best Director award has gone to that director who has won the Director's Guild award. Zinnemann was thus the obvious favorite. Also...
...other nominees for Best Actress: Anouk Aimee (Un Homme et Une Femme), Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Well deserving of its Oscar, the of best its foreign to film of the year owes much of its Josef Krōner and Ida Kaminska as a couple of harmless villagers who have to work out their own answers to the Jewish question in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Cast by the Nazis as persecutor of a helpless old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska), a seriocomic Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) struggles against moral bankruptcy in a fine Czechoslovakian drama that reduces the march of history to events on a pathetically human scale...