Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lydia Bailey (20th Century-Fox), based on Kenneth Roberts' picaresque novel, is a Technicolor blend of Haitian history and Hollywood horse opera. Dale Robertson is cast as a dashing, mettlesome Baltimore attorney, who not only espouses the cause of Haitian independence against the French, but also gives a helping hand to blonde Lydia Bailey (Anne Francis), a Philadelphia girl who is engaged to evil Napoleonic Agent Charles Korvin. Disguised as a mulatto field hand, Robertson saves Lydia from jungle rot and rotters, guides her past Mirabeau's cutthroat maroons, and through the conflagration of Cap Francois...
Robertson has been stabbed, shot five times, beaten up twice, and almost drowned after a jump from a 70-ft. cliff, he, Lydia, and the emerging republic manage to survive...
With voodoo dances arranged by Choreographer Jack Cole and plantation music the Royal Caribbean calypso ensemble, Lydia Bailey is redolent of a studio backlot jungle. As a result, moviegoers may get the feeling that the camera, by moving a frame to the right or left, might catch sight of a Southern California orange-juice stand...
...Alexander Ranezay was roused from his bunk on the U.S. military transport General C. H. Muir. His wife packed; his daughters, Lydia, 21, and Erika, 10, dressed with special care. International Refugee Organization officials wanted the Ranezays to be all ready when the ship docked at 7 a.m. For 47-year-old Ranezay, once a Slovak farm manager, had been picked as the 1,000,000th refugee to be resettled by the I.R.O. since it began its work four years ago. He was I.R.O.'s 280,572nd displaced person accepted...
Texas, where William Y. Penn, a consulting geologist, offered Alexander a job as gardener and his wife work as housekeeper. The Ranezays will live in the comfortable guest cottage on Penn's estate. Lydia, who learned English in the D.P. camp, wants to be a dress designer...