Word: remick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only potential narrator watches quietly as his visiting niece Eugenia (Lee Remick), an aging baroness, looks for a new husband whom she doubts will be "clever or friendly...or elegant or interesting." Wentworth makes but a rare comment as his rosy, foreign nephew pursues his daughter Gertrude (Lisa Eichorn) to fit into his agreeable, if not a frivolous and parasitic existence in America. With so much room, not to mention right, to criticize, Mr. Wentworth steps neatly to the side...
...stays home from church "Because the sky is so blue!"--and their European relatives who visit them. Gertrude is being tamed for a marriage to Mr. Brand (Norman Snow), a serious and pious, if not a dull man. But when the Wentworth's cousins from Europe, Eugenia (Lee Remick) and Felix (Tim Woodward) come to America in hopes of finding their cousins rich, entertaining, and ready to take them in, Felix pries a willing Gertrude from the somber arms of her family and Mr. Brand. Meanwhile the royally unhappy Eugenia cannot arouse nor be aroused by the passions...
...well-to-do Robert Acton - what should be the film's central action - one's feelings are ambiguous. James himself never quite pinned down what instinct preserved Acton and his fortune from her designs. The movie is even less clear on that point, perhaps because Lee Remick, as Eugenia, does not touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them...
Like so many ABC miniseries, from the high-toned Roots right down to the pulpy Pearl, Ike is the state of the art in slick TV production. A lot of smart choices have been made, the brightest of all being the casting of Robert Duvall and Lee Remick as the leads. Duvall may not look much like Ike-the top of head notwithstanding-but he cuts a forceful figure. His Eisenhower is unfailingly decent, corny, shrewd: a first-rate general who would later grow into a caretaker President. Remick does not resemble Summersby too much either, but who cares...
...more than photogenic starlet roles. But Deborah Raff in, 26, has a part to sink her psyche into: Brooke Hayward, in a four-hour CBS-TV version of Haywire, the bestselling daughter-recall of a harrowing, hectoring life with Producer-Father Leland Hayward and Actress-Mother Margaret Sullavan. Lee Remick plays Sullavan; Jason Robards is Hayward. Unlike Robards, who knew the man and brings friendship to the role, Raffin has never met Brooke. Still, she feels she knows something about survival because of the schlock she has played in. "I was very hurt by the experience," she says...