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...every respect. The actors, led by Franco Fabrizi, manage to separate themselves from the crowd and yet show how each contributes to the crowd. Each seems to develop a point of view. Leonora Ruffo matures from a squealing dumb Italian to a sympathetic character of real stature. And Nina Rota's music is excellent...
...Vatican's highest court of marital law, the Sacred Roman Rota, ruled on 245 marriages in 1954, declared 131 of them invalid and 114 valid. The figures are well up from 1953, when the Rota ruled on 170 marriages, nullified 76 and declared 94 valid...
...third and rarest form of canonical separation is annulment-the church's finding that no true marriage ever existed. Annulments are granted through a system of three ecclesiastical courts, the highest of which is the Rota in Rome, and for the following principal reasons: impotence, consanguinity, force and fear. During 1952 the Rota granted only 74 annulments out of 188 applications...
...heartthrob," hawk-faced Vittorio Gassman makes himself thoroughly despicable as Anna's chief debaucher. Raf Valone is the straight man who loves Anna for something besides the obvious. Jaques Dumesnil, playing an elderly surgeon-philosopher, and Patrizia Mangano, Silvana's sister, fill out a competent cast. Written by Nino Rota, the music smooths over some rough spots in the plot and dialogue, effectively supplementing the film's emotional crises...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...