Word: pygmalion
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...Playing Pygmalion. Helene Rochas's mother was one of France's first women dentists. Her father, a World War I hero who was fond of gambling, left his family little when he died. Helene took ballet lessons, became at seven the youngest of "The Opera Rats," and hoped for a career on the stage. At 18, she met Marcel Rochas-in the Metro...
...variation on Mom. She is steely, self-contained; he is cold, remote, self-centered. The pair deny themselves to each other. He is parched for the reassurance that he is capable of love, when Maggie-Marilyn sits beside him on a park bench. She appeals to his Pygmalion complex, the power to shape another human being. He pities her vulnerability, admires her gift for living in the present without justifying her actions or impulses. To her he is a wondrous king-of books. Each weds his own deepest inadequacy, his for love, hers for learning. In an exquisitely modulated performance...
...nothing much at all, a glass of milk with some lipstick near the rim. The fascination of this picture is to watch the changes-not as they came over her, but as they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed...
...only one serious complication: she was black, and he was white. On the front pages of every Southern Rhodesia paper last week was the fairytale romance of the rich, widowed white rancher to the penniless darky daughter of one of his squatter tenants. It began in 1961, and had Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons in the social graces of the region. Margaret learned to speak and read, slowly mastered the assembly of cutlery for a four-course dinner. For hours, teacher and pupil pored over arithmetic primers, encyclopedias...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (the source play of My Fair Lady), with Julie Harris, James Donald and Gladys Cooper...