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...Claude Monet Bouquet went for $25,000; a Renoir Jeune Fille for $37,000. In Manhattan, a Pissarro sold...
...many as were made by all the major U.S. studios combined. And if the Italian producers were not too successful in their efforts to imitate Hollywood, the Italian actresses were outstandingly nice to look at. However, two producers who were not trying too hard to make money, Jean Renoir and Renato Castellani, made two of the year's most beautiful color pictures: The Golden Coach and Romeo and Juliet...
Marilyn Monroe overdeveloped Hollywood's fetish for sultriness, and Audrey Hepburn reversed the trend, substituting for the revered sweater a combination of spriteliness and naivete. And now Anna Magnani, the Italian actress starring in Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach, has presented moviegoers with a new idea of feminine acting. Instead of emphasizing the body, the voice, or even the personality, she relies wholly on her face to express the emotion of each dramatic situation...
...whole, The Golden Coach fails because it spends too much time concentrating on Miss Magnani and not enough on the plot and the rest of the cast, most of whom are excellent. But as a background for his star, M. Renoir has also created a lavish spectacle of costumes, sets, and fine color photography. These elements are expertly combined to produce delightful splashes of color. There are some people, however, who feel that they can get all the color they want by watching a sunset, and who look for something else on a movie screen...
...afternoon she covered 44 galleries, six centuries of paintings and a formal tea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pausing to comment on a favorite Renoir or Rembrandt, and startling the sketching classes. That evening she went to see The Pajama Game. The show, she explained, was her own choice; for weeks she had listened to Princess Margaret's records of Hey There and Hernando's Hideaway, until the tunes "buzzed" in her ears. During the intermission she sipped champagne backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from...