Word: leni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny role of Mile. Burstner very well; her part could have been expanded to the film's advantage. Welles himself plays Joseph K.'s lawyer; he is not outstanding. The best performances in the picture are turned in by Romy Schneider and especially Akim Tamiroff. Miss Schneider portrays Leni, the lawyer's nurse who is attracted to accused men, with the right mixture of naivete and depravity. Tamiroff, as Antonius Bloch, an accused tradesman, is letter-perfect; he seems to be the only member of the cast who has fully comprehended his role...
...first, he doesn't seem right because he doesn't sound like an actor, since his voice is high and hoarse. He doesn't look much like one either. Under his porkpie hat is a wrinkly grin, a barbed Leni-Lenape nose, no neck, and shoulders too wide to go through most front doors. But that initial disturbing reaction is caused merely by the fact that the populace is not used to seeing the real thing on the screen. As Mike Hammer, Actor Spillane is tremendous...
...segment of Boccaccio '70. But the role still had a touch of the old sentimentality in it, since Director Visconti had her cry while she was collecting money from her husband for granting him his marital consortium. Orson Welles has presumably buffed her up further as the nymphomaniac Leni in his still unreleased version of Franz Kafka's The Trial. Now she is undoubtedly ready to win her permanent place in a woman's world...
Announcing their comebacks after long retirements : two fiftyish former cinema stalwarts - Anna May Wong, 53, who quit the screen 17 years ago after count less mystery women roles in Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan easterns; and Leni Riefenstahl, 53, German film star of the 1930s, called by Hitler "the perfect ex ample of German womanhood," who will redirect a remake of a movie in which she once starred, The Blue Light...