Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1934 James M. Cain wrote an exciting noval about passion, murder, a bum, and a girl who "really wasn't any raving beauty" but who had a sulky look to her. Now "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is here in the movies, with sheer quantity of kisses pinch-hitting for passion and Lana Turner for the sulky, Mexican-looking woman. Murder and the bum more nearly receive their due, the latter at the hands of John Garfield, but in no way does the picture generate the speed and intensity of the book...
...Double Indemnity" (also based on a Cain yarn), "Postman" involves the extra-curricular love affair of a married woman, the murder of the husband by wife and lover, and the net of justice that ensnares them. But where Barbara Stanwyck clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner and Garfield...
Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). One of radio's finest sustaining programs features In Deepest Grief from Bach's St. Matthew Passion...
Like ancient Athens, "the Athens of America" has its back streets. Artist Jack Levine was born on one, in Boston's grimy South End, and he has never achieved the coolness and balance of a Phidias or a Copley. He puts his passion into pictures in which rich people look like withered apples seen through a mist of rage...
Byron at 45. Thirteen years before Dickens' death he became obsessed by the belief that at 45 he was "capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant...