Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half after Paramount first announced that it had considered somebody for the role of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, the studio was still announcing it. Last week's favorite: Ballerina Vera Zorina...
...private life "Maria," as she signs herself, is Senhora Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. Her work has been shown at Manhattan's Riverside Museum and Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
This heroic-size St. Francis, carved by the sculptress "Maria" from the hard, dark Jacaranda wood she likes to use, is the first South American sculpture ever bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. The subject, St. Francis of Assist, is almost as closely related to Latin America as the wood from which it was wrought. The religious order of Franciscans, founded by this simplest and most lovable of saints, was identified with the Spanish conquest of America from the second voyage of Columbus...
...Maria's" recent Manhattan exhibition, critics found her work in general "pagan and violent," her Christ and St. Francis, spiritual and austere. Some saw in her work the influence of the French sculptor, Pierre Bourdelle...
...such Lubitsch successes as "Ninotchka." For instance, take this case: a Gestapo agent, speaking of Jack Benny's acting, says, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." The basic plot is a natural for Benny and Miss Lombard, who are cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet; she is a devoted wife who enjoys an occasional flirtation. The swift destruction of Poland halts their theatre careers and they become enrolled in the underground movement. From there on the film concerns the extremely...