Word: marias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIVA MARIA! Photography by Henri Decae enhances the allure of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot, who do what they can with Director Louis (The Lovers) Malle's rather slapdash farce about a pair of dance-hall girls involved in a Central American revolution...
...Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
...premiere promoters hustled Sex Symbol Brigitte Bardot off to Hollywood for the West Coast opening of Viva Maria! and Sex Symbol Sophia Loren had Manhattan all to herself. Well, not all. Such other delightful images as Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin paraded into Broadway's Capitol theater for the premiere of Doctor Zhivago, but the crowd saved the rave for Sophia, who didn't even play in the picture. She just tagged along in white mink cape and Dior gown with Producer Carlo Ponti, her once and future husband. In all the crush, Sophia and Carlo were beaming...
...Viva Maria! gives Brigitte Bardot one of the best roles of her career and Jeanne Moreau one of her worst. Fortunately, Moreau treats the handicap lightly, as if she were taking up tent-show theatricals just for the hell of it. Together, the two co-stars perform miracles of wit, charm and camera-wise witchery in this jaunty but slipshod farce written and directed by France's Louis Malle...
...Maria! dusts off a sliver of plot about a team of carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria...