Word: regina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Regina is a role that permits her to be both sex-and bitch-goddess, to range from coquetry to carnage. Since The Little Foxes is an out-and-out melodrama, it relies on manipulated emotions and Taylor need not probe authentic feelings. Like all melodramas, Foxes provides playgoers with the grand fun of mentally hissing villains, crying over victims and cheering on heroes...
...family trade is cotton; its god is greed. The younger brother, Oscar (Joe Ponazecki), is a man with a sycophantic spirit and an ugly habit of slapping his genteel, alcohol ic wife Birdie (Maureen Stapleton). The older brother, Ben (Anthony Zerbe), is a cigar-chomping Machiavelli. As their sister Regina, Taylor salivates in her lust for wealth, power and position...
...chance for the big bucks comes when a wily Chicago entrepreneur (Humbert Allen Astredo) offers the trio a deal to build a cotton mill if the Hubbards will share the costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...
...Taylor, 49, the character of Regina Giddens, the turn-of-the-century Southern beauty, is also the right role at the right age at the right time. Foxes may be a turning point in her career, propelling her toward the stage rather than the screen. After 58 movies in 39 years, her film career seems to be becalmed, if not begone. In the past ten years many of her pictures, from X Y & Zee to The Mirror Crack 'd, have sunk from sight with little more than a gurgle of wasted dollars...
...Neeson, helped support the family after Haig's father died of cancer when Al was ten. Neeson first got Haig into the University of Notre Dame and, after a year there, obtained a congressional appointment to the Military Academy in 1944, when Haig was 19. Surprisingly, says Regina, Haig found the discipline hard to endure, but he adjusted to it so well that in a later tour of duty at the Point, he was in charge of reprimanding cadets for infractions. The only time he apparently broke the rules was during his second year; he went over the hill...