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...individual hero is celebrated in The Four Days, no single villain vilipended. The hero is Naples, the villain is war. Director Nanni Loy, a 37-year-old Sardinian whose two previous pictures attracted little attention, set out to record a mass movement, and he has done so with stunning force and skill. Few professional actors appear in the film, and those few (among them Jean Sorel and Lea Massari) are not credited; most of the performers were found in the mazes of the Vomero, and many took an active part in the events the film describes. They really are what...
...Loy's camera contributes equally to the illusion. With the help of a telescopic lens it plunges the spectator like spaghetti into the boiling core of every battle-he goes in stiff with tension and comes out limp with fatigue. It holds him still and explodes a mob in his face. And twice it summons him to images of awful beauty...
...night, and the dinner went off so well that Romanoff sent out for a ring and chartered a plane. Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...
Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: World premiere and pre-Broadway run of There Must Be a Pony, by Jim Kirkwood Jr., starring Myrna Loy as a sort of West Coast Auntie Mame...
...names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around...