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...Nymphet-Mania. One reason for some of the harsh reviews may have been that the critics were too aware of the movie's American origin. The homegrown skill displayed in Bonnie and Clyde may seem strange to Americans; it is no surprise to Europeans. To an extent, the American film was discovered by the French, who see things in U.S. movies no one else saw before. The directors who created France's New Wave openly imitated such films from the American past as the westerns of John Ford, the adventure flicks of Howard Hawks, and B-level gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...About "Have Nymphet, Will Travel" [May 12]: We rescue dogs from inhumane treatment, we save cats from drowning, and we take children from parents who beat them. What can we do for a child like Romina Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1967 | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...ingenue is less than snow white. Two years ago, when the De Laurentiis studio gave Romina the role of a child bride in Home Life, Italian Style, Linda swooped in and demanded "American prices" because "Romina is Romina." Romina's success in the picture led to another nymphet role in How I Learned to Love Women, in which, says Linda, "she absolutely wiped the screen with her leading man." And, she adds proudly, "her name was put above the title," which in the advertisements was accompanied by a shot of Romina sprawled nude on a towel decorated with water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Have Nymphet, Will Travel | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By Northern Lights | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

RAPTURE. In an astonishingly subtle performance, Patricia Gozzi (the disturbing nymphet of Sundays and Cybele) plays a lonely, imaginative girl with a fixation for a handsome criminal (Dean Stockwell). The girl's embittered father (Melvyn Douglas) and a slatternly servant (Gunnel Lindblom) agree to harbor the fugitive for reasons of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 22, 1965 | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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