Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venturing into criticism the Advocate has printed an overly long article by Curtis Thomas on the novels of an obscure contemporary, Paul Hervey Fox. Attempting the almost impossible tour de force of describing an unknown in order to evaluate him, Thomas never even succeeds in bringing his Pygmalion to life, and Fox remains what he was, a little known novelist...
...Corn is Green. Ethel Barrymore in a notable performance as pedagogical Pygmalion to a Welsh miner...
...this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...
Among the scripts are: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Boys' Town," "Camille," "The Citadel," "David Copperfield," "Fury," "Good-bye Mr. Chips," "The Great Zeigfeld," "Naughty Marietta," "Pride and Prejudice," "Pygmalion," "The Informer," "Roberta," "Stage Door," "Winterset," "Dead End," "Wuthering Heights," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born." "Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Story of Louis Pasteur," "The Gay Divorcee," and "Waterloo Bridge...
...performances by Roland Culver as a jut-jawed naval commander, David Tree as his lovesick rival. But it is chiefly notable as a demonstration of what eye-rolling Ellen Drew and eyebrow-lifting Ray Milland can be made to do by a capable director-Anthony Asquith, who co-directed Pygmalion...