Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rising of the Moon is greater than any of the three parts. Each part has its deficiencies, but they are obscured by the artistry of the whole. Many stories and plays by Synge and by the post-revolutionary generation of Irish writers would well be adapted for the screen. One hopes that Ford will attempt another trilogy soon...
This mixture does not succeed on the screen as it might in print. Because the disparate elements remain inconclusive, it is melodrama that emerges most clearly...
Tall (5 ft. 9½ in.), slender, exquisite Actress Kendall seems at one moment to have come sauntering elegantly out of a Gainsborough portrait, yet at the next she is helling about the screen like a Hogarth hoyden. There is Kay in the height of Paris fashion, triumphant on the witness stand; Kay slinking about in skintights, silkily eluding an incipient pinch; Kay staggering under a giant bouquet of sunflowers, hurling herself into a violent off-to-Buffalo; Kay drunk and belching through a lusty diaphragmentation of the Habanera from Carmen ("All ze men, zay want my -ceegarettes"). And always...
...less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have a bright and charming one that is capable of expressing a rather pretty wit. And Taina Elg, a ballerina seen in her first important screen role, will undoubtedly be seen again...
...Visit with Pablo Casals. A great cellist charges the screen with the power of creativity (TIME...