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...Goodie was distracted with grief. After months of brooding in a Sacramento hotel room, he finally went about once more and looked up an old acquaintance, Virginia Carlson, the pretty widow of a World War II bombardier, and a poetess of modest talents (TIME, May 16). Goodie's prim idea of a big date with Virginia was to take her to the Ontra Cafeteria on Wilshire Boulevard and then to the movies. Eventually, the Knight daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look...
Champagne Complex (by Leslie Stevens) concerns a young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl wants the analyst himself as Cupid to her psyche. Since, in romantic comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments...
...should make him attractive. Shaw's version is genuinely hearty and morally scrubbed, perhaps more a man of instinct than thought, but his are good, deep instincts. Instead, Fdgerton is posing and sniveling. In a role which demands naturalness above all, he is always artificial, or worse, sanctimonious and prim...
...biggest blow to the Government's case came from its star witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed...
...wife would have to be made to understand that it was something fine-and bigger than all of them. Her peculiar talent, you might say, is that she inspires licit passion." From the day in 1951 when she walked into Director Fred Zinnemann's office wearing prim white gloves ("Nobody came to see me before wearing white gloves"), the well-bred Miss Grace Kelly of Philadelphia has baffled Hollywood. She is a rich girl who has struck it rich. She was not discovered behind a soda fountain or at a drive-in. She is a star who was never...