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...days before Lolita made the girl-child a femme fatale, Barbara was in Chicago, toying with improvised variations on a theme called "Too Tempting to Men" with the Second City theater group. Now, at 25, she is a woman playing a girl, a trick she accomplishes with such hilarity and grace that she has become more tempting than ever. Last week Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers signed her for the lead in their first musical together, and Sid Caesar is building the first of his new fall TV series around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Girl-Child | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Krthur Kopit. A surrealistic foray into the no-man's land of Mornism. Barbara Harris is the sexiest sprout since Lolita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Like Guinness, he often pops up in various roles within a single film (The Mouse That Roared, The Naked Truth). As the finkish Clare Quilty, he tries out several disguises in Hollywood's new and breathily awaited Lolita, which brought him to the U.S. last week for a promotion tour. New Sellers films open, it seems, about as frequently as cuckoo clocks; he has made more than two dozen in the last twelve years. Only Two Can Play is playing to sellout audiences in London and New York. He is Jean Anouilh's lecherous old general in Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Shy Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 20, 1962 | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...Broadway Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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