Word: raffish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deserted her mother (well played by Ruth Attaway), Teddy lives in ramshackle poverty. Mischievous, sensitive, sharp-tongued, she yearns to be "a rich white woman" like her mother's employer, Mrs. Patterson. But mingled with her gaudy fantasies of tea parties in the Patterson set are episodes involving raffish Chicago folk and a certain "Mr. D." from Hell. At the end, the dreams are crushed out, and Teddy starts facing the realities she has run away from...
Tasteless and labored, Dear Charles has just enough helpful lines and situations to serve Tallulah as a vehicle. If never the least bit Parisian, she is frequently lively. There are those sudden moments when her voice comes up like thunder, or she freezes with raffish hauteur, or has the charm of something caged and carnivorous. There are doubtless nobler ways of being unmistakable and unforgettable, but in a world where few people ever manage to be either, Actress Bankhead remain almost incessantly both...
Nine Neat Marks. Early last month, after his freshman year at Fordham University, Thorne drove home to Chicago, but he did not go to his mother's 15-room East Lake Shore Drive apartment. Instead, he went to a dingy hotel, and then moved into a tiny, raffish apartment in Chicago's bohemia. A few days later, on June 19, his body was found there abed, with blood-flecked lips and, on his arms. nine neat punctures like a drug-addict's needle marks. Four were fresh...
Actress Booth is well cast as a trouper who also runs a theatrical boarding house; and it is too bad that the raffish life of show folk is not oftener blended with the razzle-dazzle of the Midway. Instead, the uninspired libretto ordains that Lottie shall fall for a divorced Shakespearean actor with a troubled and troublesome daughter, and that their romance shall not only run on & on, but eventually trudge and finally creep...
Gerard Philipe, as the raffish Fan Fan, is quite a match for his leading lady in scene stealing. Lacking her more obvious props, he forges ahead with the urbane skill that has made him one of France's top actors. Those who saw Devil In The Flesh will wonder at his transformation. No more the scrawny, introspective adolescent, Philipe is a virile and powerful hero, dispatching his enemies with a grace and athletic elan that has not been seen since the days of the elder Fairbanks...