Word: karamazov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Scarf (Associated Artists) introduces a detective named Maitre De-liot (Michael Redgrave), who is a sort of cross between Hercule Poirot and Father Brown, with a dash of old man Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A bachelor, from the bees in his bonnet to the flies on his vest, he is grimy, grouchy, up to his knees in litter, and almost down to his belt in beard...
They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...want to expand, to get into other fields, to broaden my scope . . . People have scope, you know, they really do." Sipping a glass of sherry ("Its so good for your stomach"), Marilyn disclosed that she would like "to play some strong dramatic parts . . . like Grushenka, in The Brothers Karamazov . . . I don't know [how to spell it]. I only hope...
...studio until 1958. Fox issued a white paper: "20th Century-Fox is very satisfied with both the artistic and financial results from the pictures in which Miss Monroe has appeared . . . 20th Century-Fox has no intention of granting Miss Monroe's request that she play in Brothers Karamazov...
...Marilyn already has a strong ally in fun-loving Director Billy (Sabrina) Wilder, who insists that he would like to see Marilyn play in The Brothers Karamazov. After that, he grinned, he would be delighted to direct her in such Holly-woodish sequels as Seven Brides for the Brothers Karamazov, All the Brothers Were Karamazovs, The Brothers Karamazov Join the WACs, and, of course, The Brothers Karamazov Meet Abbott & Costello...