Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitalize on Warner Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
...Shirley Booth, and no one can match her when she is on the middle-aged make. Waving her umbrella like a fairy godmother with a poltergeistic wand, she stumbles, rumbles and cannily bumbles her way through the title role of Thornton Wilder's 1956 stage success in a manner that moviegoers with a taste for old-fashioned American farce will have no trouble savoring...
...performances of the first act. Jerome Kilty, playing the central role of Henry Higgins, was required to carry most of this act on his own and unfortunately was not equal to this task. Evidently well-versed in Shakespearean acting, he attempted to perform Shaw in a Shakespearean manner. The result was a stiff, awkward, and a rather weak portrayal...
...near Frome in the county of Somerset, 100 miles from his office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman who liked to sit in the window of the Carlton on dismal days in order to have the pleasure of "seeing it rain on the damned people...
...Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone does, the mixture "foments"-or so says an ancient barmaid-and he sings Old King Cole in a manner that sounds almost bawdy. But then, of course, the clan is Australian...