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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious as the vamp of Paris...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Almanac | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

...Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor: some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor; some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 28, 1953 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...gigantic story: early Christianity under the Roman Empire. Based on the famed bestseller of the late Rev. Lloyd C. Douglas, the film contains more piety than wit and more spectacle than humanity, but it is ably served by a competent cast headed by Britain's Richard (My Cousin Rachel) Burton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1953 | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...Around Us. The Technicolor camera prowls the ocean floor: some beautiful scenes, but lacking the majestic sweep of Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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