Word: oberon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temptation (Universal-International) comes about as close as the Johnston Office will permit in letting Merle Oberon get away with murder. Adapted from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
...After months of impatient waiting for the movie version of James Thurber's introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will be advertised on marquees as / Wake Up Dreaming. ¶Bella Donna (Merle Oberon and George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck...
...viewed the choice and execution of half the Sunday afternoon concert of the Orchestra in rather a dim light. A program of Weber Ravel, Strauss, and Brahms is simply too great a dose of Romanticism to be swallowed comfortably in one sitting. Following close on the heels of the "Oberon" Overture, and Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Infanta," the usually brilliant "Till Eulenspiegel" was not setoff effectively and seemed trite rather than amusing. This unintended effect was partially realized by Dr. Koussevitzky's insistence upon attacking the Weber with the bombast and brilliance usually reserved for Wagnor's "Rienzi...
...Wagner, found the cacophony of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony a little hard to take. So did some in the audience at Hollywood Bowl last week. But they were impressed by the conservative and competent way he handled Weber's tried & true overture to Oberon, Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico...
...Merle Oberon, almond-eyed cinema siren, five-month wife of Cameraman Keith Ballard, was reported "doing very nicely" after an operation performed "to increase likelihood of motherhood...