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Directress Audry worked with a hard-eyed and knowing script written by her sister, famed French Novelist Colette (who took her story from a 1949 English novel, Olivia, by an anonymous author). The movie tells of a lonely English teenager, Olivia, who is sent to a French finishing school. From the first day, sad little Olivia joins in the twitter of happiness that seems to fill her new world. She is too young to understand the possibilities of evil that...
...Olivia herself soon succumbs to the spell of Mlle. Julie. The woman spreads her web for the girl, but even as Olivia is drawn closer, the audience begins to understand how Julie is caught in her own net no less cruelly than her victims are. She is a woman of spirit and of heart, a gifted teacher who desperately fights her own inclinations. The picture is never crass and only once or twice comes close to being explicit...
...Cara dies from an overdose of sedative. Shattered with grief and remorse, Julie leaves the school. Olivia is left to mend her life as best she can. The only serious fault in the picture is its failure to cut the gab at the end and leave the audience to make what it will of the situation. Instead, the last few scenes shift from one foot to another like guests who cannot bear to leave until they have hit on a clever exit line...
Family: While on duty at Schofield Barracks in 1932, married Maude Mc-Keever, daughter of a sugar broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Children: Richard, an Air Force Reserve pilot; Nathan Alexander, a promising pianist; Olivia, now at Holton-Arms Junior College in Washington. General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps...
...Miss Olivia Hazelton will present the portrait, painted in 1918 by her sister, the late Mary B. Hazleton. It will hang in the Army ROTC seminar room...