Word: murderess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Diana was learning lines for her next movie role - the condemned murderess in the film version of Yield to the Night (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954). She feels that English directors are wary of sex ("I don't think they know quite what to do with it"), says that after playing in a death cell, she will be happy to get back into a boudoir: "I might as well cash in on my sex now while I've got it. It can't last forever...
...fashioned theater, often with an Age of Violence twist. Unabashed in dialogue if a bit evasive in theme, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof had Williams' usual plunging force and reckless, unbraked use of it. Maxwell Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution made murder a pleasure...
...eight-year-old girl who, when crossed or cornered, indulges in murder. But its various homicides do not begin to exhaust its horrors. Slowly, tormentedly, the little girl's mother becomes aware of her daughter's nature; then she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderess also...
Henze's plot takes the old story of Manon Lescaut forward to the Paris of 1950 and turns its willful heroine into a strumpet and murderess, her brother into a pimp and thief. Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique...
...courtroom farce in which a bombastic attorney (played by famed Director Vittorio De Sica) successfully defends a voluptuous murderess (Gina Lollobrigida) by playing on the emotions of a susceptible judge and jury...