Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oliver Twist is long (1 hr. 45 min.) and rich enough to spare the cuts. Directed by David Lean and produced by Ronald Neame, the British team responsible for 1947's superb Great Expectations, the movie recreates the novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths...
...Director Lean, who wrote the script with Stanley Haynes, has trimmed away some excess narrative, jettisoned a few minor characters, juggled a few incidents for dramatic effect, but salvaged much of Dickens' original dialogue. Yet Oliver Twist is more than an intelligent adaptation; it is a major creative effort by one of the few directors who has mastered his medium...
...from Douglas MacArthur's day. Publicly, the White House made a great show of leaving MacArthur unanswered. But privately, through the device of a leak to the New York Times, Harry Truman struck back. It seemed to be the opening of a battle in which each side would lean on documents marked "Secret" to make its case before...
Marriage: MacArthur was married in 1922 at the age of 42 to Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks, the daughter of Philadelphia's wealthy socialite Mrs. Edward Stotesbury. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. In 1937, he married lean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., a quiet, dark-haired woman 19 years his junior. The MacArthurs have one son, 13-year-old Arthur MacArthur...
Daughter of a well-to-do Roman architect and engineer, Pier got her look of lean intensity from a spell of malnutrition late in World War II. Though she was never trained as an actress, her delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...