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M.F.L. as M.L.F. "When your name is read," nominees had been instructed before show time, "please recover from the ecstatic shock as quickly as you can and push your way immediately through the crowd of all your sudden friends." And everyone tried. Lila Kedrova, 45, a surprising winner as best supporting actress for her near-flawless portrayal of a desperate and dying courtesan in Zorba the Greek, started forward and then stumbled into a Zorba-like bear hug from Star Anthony Quinn. "Has it really happened?" she gasped. "It has," he assured...
...Tonight Hollywood is handing out foreign aid," Hope cracked. And so it seemed. For the first time in Academy Award history, every acting award had been copped by a foreigner: three Britons and France's Kedrova. Concluded Hope as he rang down the curtain: "After this, the winners will celebrate at a dinner at the Beverly Hilton. The losers will join hands and march on the British embassy...
...women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the same pride and dignity she brought to her performance as Electra...
Speak of the Devil and he appears. First night in Crete, the old man turns into an old goat and goes snorting after a dilapidated soubrette of 60 (Lila Kedrova), who followed the British fleet to Crete in her flaming youth and made enough money to retire by entertaining admirals on the bridge. Next day the old man urges his young friend to hold similar converse with the village widow (Irene Papas). The young man is afraid to try. "It would only make trouble," he murmurs. "Trouble!" the old man hoots at him. "Life is trouble. Only dead...
...treats it with respect but not with awe. The big moments of the book are all in the film, but the fictional furbelows are trimmed, and some dazzling cinematic doodads added. The camera sees much that Kazantzakis didn't, and the movie is often funnier than the book-Kedrova's minx emeritus, she of the floor-length eyelashes, frequent chins and raucous reminiscences is, for instance, a major comic creation. Zorba, of course, is the heart and soul of the show, and Quinn plays him to hellangone. In his finest frames, at the dominant moments of the drama...