Word: katia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Talking Committee will present "Katia" Thursday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2, Divinity Avenue. There will be four showings, at 1.45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. Undergraduates of Radcliffe may obtain tickets free...
...story of the tragic love between Tsar Alexander II and Princess Dolgoruki is told tenderly and tearfully in "Katia," the new French film at the Fine Arts. A gushing romance not entirely free from 10c novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps...
...than a star's performance. John Loder as the Tsar is almost repulsively sweet; but again there may be some historical justification for that. His promising career as Russia's liberator is cruelly broken off by an assassin's bullet--and the touching show comes to a touching end. Katia's final words: "Pauvre Russie!" sets the audience reflecting on the present as well as the past...
...Katia (Mayer-Burstyn) is a leisurely, Frenchified version of a Cecil B. deMille luxury film, which gives girlishly graceful Danielle Darrieux, in the title role, opportunity to be the intimate of still another European prince. In Mayerling, she was the mistress of Austrian Archduke Rudolf. In Katia she is the morganatic wife of Russian Emperor Alexander...