Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer-Director Clarence Brown, skipping nimbly over the theological soft spots in his plot, takes a firm stand against the forces of Evil, represented by Radio Announcer Keenan Wynn, who doubts that Providence cares whether the Pirates win or lose. On the side of muscular Christianity are Janet Leigh as the girl who gets Douglas; a pansy-eyed child star named Donna Corcoran as the devout orphan, and Ellen Corby as a nun who knows baseball like a book...
...Streetcar Named Desire. A faithful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Broadway hit; with Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter (TIME, Sept...
...script, its director, Elia Kazan, and most of the original principals, including Marlon (The Men) Brando as the tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...
...first movie in four years, and her first in Hollywood since 1941's That Hamilton Woman, Vivien Leigh seems overshadowed by the skilled actors around her. Among her handicaps: a somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages. The brilliantly lifelike playing of Actor Maiden and Actress Hunter is even better than it was on the stage. As the hulking, animalistic Kowalski, Marlon Brando fills his scenes with a virile power that gives Streetcar its highest voltage...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union, having brewed a new campaign against sale of liquor to the armed forces, last week pulled the cork with a pop. In Boston, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W.C.T.U. president, handed out excerpts from a letter written to an American prohibitionist last January by Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese naval air captain who led the air attack on Pearl Harbor. Under the heading "No More Pearl Harbors and No More Drinking," Teetotaler Fuchida wrote: "Because of my subordinate position, I did not know at the time why the Japanese high command chose that day. After...