Word: lilies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Lili Darvas, 72, celebrated Hungarian-American actress; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Four years after her 1921 stage debut in Budapest, Darvas was discovered by Max Reinhardt, then Europe's foremost director...
...debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol Flynn...
Love derives much of its strength from the fine accumulation of gesture and detail that Director Makk has worked into the modest fabric of his story. An old lady (Lili Darvas), nearly 100 and dying with dignity and resignation from the kind of fatigue that cannot be diagnosed or reversed, lies all day in her bed, tended by a maid and by her daughter-in-law Luca (Mari Torocsik). The old lady lives in a twilight of memory, where past and present tend to flow together into a kind of future-imperfect tense. The room is kept clean and carefully...
Marlene Dietrich--I Wish You Love. The grand vamp of legend debuts on American television in an hour-long special taped in London last year. Dietrich sings "Falling in Love Again." "Lili Marlene," and "Lola" among a host of other tunes that she made great. CH. 7. 10 p.m. Color...
...Mari Torocsik) whose husband has been jailed for unspecified political crimes by the Hungarian secret police. The husband's aging mother is dying. To comfort her, the woman writes long letters, supposedly from the husband, about his fantastic adventures as a film director in America. The old woman (Lili Darvas) finally passes away without ever knowing that her son is in jail. The wife endures, and abruptly, without explanation, her husband (Ivan Darvas) is released and returns home. The moment of their reunion, impeccably acted, rendered with poignant simplicity by Hungarian Director Karoly Makk, is a scene that overwhelms...