Word: minx
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...portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves her in-law a little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham" girl, the show is straight drama-a welcome relief from Hollywood's recent obsession...
...Opera, singing a minor comic role in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Fortnight ago he took the centre of the stage, in the title role of Donizetti's Don Pasquale: a waddling, foolish old party, so much put upon that when he got slapped by a soprano minx he touched real pathos. Last week Baccaloni waddled again, this time as walrus-mustached Sergeant Sulpice in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment-and his reputation was made in Manhattan...
...same devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...
...faithful, even reverent attempt to immortalize the Edison story on film. But like most posthumous at tempts to recreate the creative moments of great men - Beethoven scoring the Seventh Symphony while romping through a thunderstorm, Schubert conceiving the Unfinished Symphony because of heartbreak over a Hungarian minx - Edison's fine frenzies remain, with the past, unrecapturable...
...respect due to come his way, but he's also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching some sleezy little minx whooping it up with only ten months to live is not exactly riotous entertainment, and when mixed with some funereal acting by George Brent and a new triple-threat Cleopatra named Geraldine Fitzgerald breaking into tears at the slightest provocation, the total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation...