Word: karamazov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seeing The Brothers Karamazov [Feb. 24] strengthens my long-held suspicion that TIME'S motion picture critic should be banished to some desert island reserved for misguided sophisticates...
Cinemactress Maria (The Brothers Karamazov) Schell, arriving in Manhattan to promote her new movie, exuded a heady mixture of fluff and philosophy. A first-rate actress on screen and off, Maria, 32. parried most of the newsmen's thrusts with ease, sooner or later got her listeners into her own frame of reference. Her greatest vice at the moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace...
...Brothers Karamazov (MGM) is Hollywood's retelling of the Dostoevsky classic. Like all great works of art, the novel has an elusive way of being all things to all men. Psychologists have hailed it the profoundest of all psychological novels; diplomats still read it as a key to Russian life and temperament. To historians, it is a bomb of a book that shattered the complacent pane through which 19th century Europe surveyed the weather of the soul. To the religious, it is a prophecy of the apocalypse that has been visited upon the 20th century, and a sovereign medicine...
...Bergman? Last week M-G-M was getting ready to hurl "the blonde bomb Schell," as the movie columnists like to call her, at the U.S. moviegoing public in her first Hollywood picture-a $2,500,000 adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, in which, as Hollywood would have it, the first lady of the European screen will be seen in a role (Grushenka) that was originally intended for Marilyn Monroe. Maria Schell has already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating out the final...
...uncle." And another thing: Maria's earthy body makes a startling contrast to her heavenly face. From her father's side of the family she has inherited the chunky frame of a Swiss farm girl, with heavy hips and strapping thighs. Richard Brooks, who directed her in Karamazov, sums up: "She isn't the sort of girl who gives you sweaty palms...