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...pretensions keep his wife Nora and his ambitious daughter Sara in poverty. Melody will not tend bar--he has hired a barkeep. His daughter must wait on table while he drinks away the meager profits, and he keeps the establishment in debt through the extravagant upkeep of his greatest joy, a white thoroughbred mare...
...Nora, on the other hand, loves all her husband's fantasies. But he is repelled by her because her peasant brogue and stooped figure recall his unaristocratic marriage...
Connie Abramson, who plays Maurya, is too harsh throughout, screaming lines she should properly mutter or let fall without ado. 'Anne Bernstein, as Nora, is too tragic for a 14-year old girl, and she seems inclined to sob or sigh when she feels like it rather than in response anyone else's lines. David Handlin does not appear to know how he should act, but he has the grace to underplay, and his Bartley comes out natural, if a little weak...
...dollops of sentiment and a formula ending flaw the otherwise engaging and perceptive script by Nora and Nunnally Johnson. Though droll performances are rung up by Prentiss, Sellers and Angela Lansbury (as Tippy's pampered, promiscuous mother), all are up against a force of nature as potent as Disneyland. Director George Roy Hill is obviously happy to let the camera ogle while his half-pint scene stealers do their stuff. And why not? It's grand larceny...
...newswoman Sadie Burke, she nipped at the heels of Broderick Crawford in Hollywood's All the King's Men, winning an Oscar as the best supporting actress of 1949. She had been a radio soap-opera star (Big Sister, This Is Nora Drake). But Hollywood instantly claimed her as its new resident shrike, and she has lived out there over the past dozen years, making pictures like Johnny Guitar, Giant, A Farewell to Arms and Suddenly Last Summer. "Every day," she says, remembering Summer, "the makeup department would spend an hour making Elizabeth Taylor look more dazzling...