Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songs of Love (Sylvia Syms; Decca). Songstress Syms attacks a few of these throat huskers (He Loves and She Loves, Hands Across the Table) with a beat so limp that she suggests a woman in search of a paycheck instead of a passion. In her better moments (Alone Too Long, Can't We Be Friends?), her foggy, appealing voice is that of a nice girl who is very, very anxious to set her boudoir in order...
HAPPY YOU CONSIDER "PATHS OF GLORY" CURRENT & CHOICE. IF ANTI-WAR ATTITUDE IS "PASSION OUT OF FASHION," THEN PLEASE MAKE NOTE THAT I AM OLD FASHION...
This Is Truth. Actress Schell works out her parts with a passion for detail that is eminently Swiss. For Die Ratten, in which she played a refugee girl, she traipsed over to East Berlin to have her hair done in a Sovietized style, and bought the shabby clothing she wore in the picture off the back of a girl in a refugee camp. On the set she lives with "total concentration" the character she is playing; if she wants a glass of water between takes, it is the character who makes the request. She covers her scripts with more interpretive...
Always Smiling. Maria's inwardness and philosophical passion, the special glory of her art, is not merely a personal characteristic; it is the peculiar tradition of the German theater, to which she was apprenticed as soon as she could talk. Her father, Hermann Ferdinand Schell, was a Swiss playwright, moderately well known in Vienna, where he lived and worked, and where Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was born on Jan. 15, 1926. Her mother, a Viennese actress, daughter of a prominent neurologist and granddaughter of Vienna's chief of police, ran an experimental theater-along with a family...
...Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose interest was still further excited by rumors that the passion was even more flaming off the screen than on. In 1952, when Borsche was replaced by O. W. Fischer, "Schell-Fisch" became an even more popular couple...