Word: schemer
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...tenderness and the bitterness of the story. Heading the cast are Gordon MacRae, whose voice has never been stronger, and Shirley Jones, whose charm is matched only by her singing. In support of the two who play Billy and Julie are Cameron Mitchell as an adequately evil but beguiling schemer, and the Metropolitan's Robert Rounseville as Mr. Snow. And when Julie's aunt Nettie, Claramae Turner, sang "You'll Never Walk Alone," the audience had a good collective cry. With the help of such effective portrayals, the story of sweet Carrie's marriage to a carnival barker is still...
...million." The new contract calls for a half-hour filmed show featuring Gleason and his sidekicks. Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, in The Honeymooners. This is an expanded version of a series of sketches running on his current program, which stars Jackie as Ralph Kramden, a frantic schemer who, unlike Jackie in real life, is always going nowhere in particular in a great hurry. Jackie Gleason Enterprises will retain ownership (for reruns) of the shows and will produce a weekly half-hour musical revue to precede The Honeymooners. To top off his already brimming cup. Gleason also gets...
...Shakespeare has England's King Richard III describe himself. For almost 500 years, the world has pictured the last of the Plantagenets as one of history's arch villains: a homicidal ("I can smile, and murder while I smile"), deformed ("an envious mountain on my back . . .") schemer who usurped the throne and foully murdered the boy princes in the Tower...
...sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled the countryside with Alabama cockleburs...
...passionate devotion to her. He just feels "empty" and runs to the company of the Lebedevs, who are themselves living superficial existences and are unable to understand one another. It is interesting that the only person who can temporarily awake these creatures from their lethargy is Misha, a worthless schemer, admirably played in the Brattle production by Paul Sparer...