Word: leer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people save Silk Stockings, and Pat Fay is one of them. Miss Fay plays Ninotcha, the orthodox Marxlste who visits Paris and melts under the lights of the city and the leer of an American she meets there; and, no kidding, from where I sat she looked every bit as lovely as Garbo. But she did more than look good: she brought onto the stage with her an air of graceful authority and confidence that almost managed to give the unhappy crew around her guts enough to say their corny lines and sing their tuneless songs. Unfortunately, as Ninotchka...
...acting doesn't help things. Leo Genn, as the gamekeeper Mellors, seems able to do little more than expand his massive chest and leer. Danielle Darrieux, playing Lady Chatterly, is only a slight improvement. She doesn't leer, but she does manage to convey a disquieting coldness even when running off with her lover...
...study, and brought him fame and $250,000 so far from the American rights alone, including a Hollywood sale. But Wallace insists that sincerity was the mark of his bedside manner. He says that he recoils when people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject...
Even if their acting range runs far beyond the short course from sneer to leer, they live and die halfway down the marquee...
...licien Marceau) is a French sex farce with more head than bed in it, though on Broadway it tries to keep grinning from leer to leer...