Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Rising of the Moon (Warner) is a trilogy of Ireland, a feature film entirely Irish both in locale of its scenes and soul of its makers, who include the Maine-born director, John Ford (real name: Sean O'Fearna). As if to disprove W. B. Yeats's...
Cultivated like a hothouse orchid by Mother, Joanne was discovered by a smart young pressagent named Ted Howard. In Joanne, he saw another Brenda Frazier, fabled (later fate-buffeted) glamor debutante of the '30s. He taught Joanne to mingle with the right people in the right places-the Stork...
Although the plot is not so cryptic as a summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would...
Smoke Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio...
The Rainmaker. Forecast: sunny comedy, with spells of metaphysical drizzle (Burt Lancaster), occasional electric storms (Katharine Hepburn), romantic sunset (TIME, Dec. 31).