Word: moviedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow-burning and confidently virile, he has a star actor's natural instinct for arousing curiosity about what he will do next. Parks pulls attention to himself like a vagrant, possibly savage tomcat whose animal responses need not be understood to be interesting. And he makes most of moviedom's clean-jawed young swains look about as dangerous as campfire boys...
Blindfold marks the Hollywood debut of Claudia Cardinale, who must regret the expensive miracles of mismanagement worked in her behalf. Though still identifiable by her accent and by moviedom's quickest smile, CeeCee is lacquered with a standard starlet finish that makes her beauty appear sprayed on. Rock Hudson, meanwhile, plays his own 50th movie role as if to refute the hypothesis that experience is the best teacher...
...Nanny is a small sedate British thriller, based on the assumption that one good squirm deserves another. Having mopped up in three earlier blood-letters, moviedom's Ace Bogeywoman Bette Davis now goes about her grisliness with quiet, unruffled efficiency. The Nanny is her definitive essay on the servant problem, and may be taken as an antidote by those who found Mary Poppins too sweet to stomach...
...gown and remarks: "I should warn you, I won the ladies' small-arms championship." Rutherford fans are aware by now that every Murder will out more or less the same way, but it does seem a pity to assign so much small-bore comedy to one of moviedom's Big Berthas...
...Ground." Politics was only a two-step away. Murphy was a G.O.P. National Convention delegate in 1948, 1952 and 1956, served a brief stint as Republican state chairman. At the same time, he moved from the sound stages into moviedom's business offices, where today he functions as a vice president for public relations with Technicolor Corp. And last year he began thinking seriously about running for the Senate. "I had this thing researched for months," he says. "I wanted to learn if people would accept an actor running for office. And the word was that...