Word: playboyism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...songs are imbedded in a fictionalized, soggily romantic yarn about the men in the diva's life: her Australian husband (John McCallum), who walked out on her (in real life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career in Paris); a rich London playboy (John Justin), who helped her get started on her career; and an amorous hotelkeeper (Alec Clunes). Also figuring in the film: Impresario Oscar Hammerstein (Robert Morley). who is depicted as intent on bringing Melba to the U.S., and Queen Victoria (Sybil Thorndike), for whom she sings at Windsor Castle...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
...tells of a shrewdly naive young girl who makes monkeys out of a couple of wolves by alternately teasing, tempting and mothering them. The girl and a handsome young architect meet by chance atop the Empire State Building observation tower, and wind up in his apartment. A middle-aged playboy enters the scene. The proceedings are, however, scrupulously moral. The girl is a charmingly outspoken young creature who is adequately armed with her own innocence. The architect is an honorable fellow (he gets the girl to the altar in the end). Even the roue becomes talkative and rueful when...
...little later, slender Major General Mohammed Naguib, front man in the military coup which toppled playboy King Farouk from his throne last July, went on the air as the Republic of Egypt's first Premier and President. ". . . We proclaim today," said he, "in the name of the people, abolition of the monarchy...
Small Town Girl (MGM) is a Technicolored trifle about a playboy (Farley Granger) who is jailed for speeding through a small town. By Hollywood justice, he finds himself not only in the clutches of the law but also in the arms of the judge's pretty daughter (Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy...