Word: seductress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined Ann Whitefield, who forces Jack Tanner to his knees and her arms, Rosemary Harris makes a delicious seductress, ensnaring her prey with a wonderfully cool, crafty grace. In his stage directions Shaw calls Ann "one of the vital geniuses," and Tanner says, referring to her, "Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation." Miss Harris' Ann completely fails to live up to these prescriptions, even during the hell scene when her tempting activities are temporarily in abeyance; but perhaps there is nothing in the lines given her that can be so acted. At any rate, she makes...
...novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...
Mary Cass, a Northwestern co-ed during the regular year, plays Estelle, the full-bodied French seductress who murdered her child in the presence of its father. Miss Cass holds herself well; she gestures effectively; she controls her voice; and she has the advantage of beauty. The only complaints, and they are picayune, are occasional lapses when she isn't involved in the dialogue, and a tendency to grimace too often...
...score by Composer Michel Magne, dressed in sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene with the dying hero far more evocative than blonde Dancer Adam...
...voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...