Word: kittenishness
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...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
...Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...wide-awake P.T.A. mothers, from Larchmont to Santa Monica, would be appalled by the situation at Montigny. The district superintendent of schools not only sleeps with the women teachers but pinches the girl students while inviting them up to see his etchings; the headmistress is a Lesbian; her kittenish assistant indiscriminately chases both sexes; one of the male teachers writes love sonnets to a pretty 15-year...
Married. Peggy Ann Garner, 24, kittenish cinemingénue (Black Widow), onetime child star (Junior Miss); and Albert Salmi, 28, Broadway actor (End As a Man, Bus Stop); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Televiewers had a chance last week to let the networks know what they wanted in dramatic shows. NBC's Producers Showcase presented Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the ennuied Caesar and Claire Bloom as a kittenish Cleopatra with the claws of a full-grown tiger. Even the supporting roles were graced by top-notchers-Judith Anderson, Cyril Ritchard, Jack Hawkins and Farley Granger. For producer, NBC turned to Anthony Quayle. who had just starred in Marlowe's Tamburlaine on Broadway. Though compressed into 90 minutes, the Shavian comedy kept the refreshing...