Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freud, about mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life's complexion has never...
...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 33, in a Manhattan hospital after "corrective surgery," presumably aimed at readying her for long-delayed motherhood; Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 59, bedded in Spoleto, Italy with pneumonia aggravated by "chronic emphysema" (overstretched lung tissues) ; Presidential Press Secretary James
King Sextimus (Jack Gilford) is a Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Unwed motherhood gets the winsome-smile treatment from celebrated Actress Maria Schell...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A sensitive performance by Maria Schell surmounts insensitive direction in a story about the pangs of unmarried motherhood...