Word: seductress
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...series of implausible events leads to the bedroom of a 17-year-old seductress with a powerful allure: the unpublished novel of an obscure ecclesiastical essayist. Adam prefers the manuscript to the girl, who presents herself to him unexpurgated and not even in a plain wrapper. It should be a funny scene, but, like most of the situations, it flags quickly...
...other switches don't make it. Miss Rosenthal has trouble in her flip-flops between being a character and a disgruntled actress. She's petulant and funny as the latter, but too timid and line-swallowing as the former. She should go at being a scatterbrained maid and occasional seductress with the assurance she displays as a bitching second lead...
...controls him, even calls him a fool. But Barrett upsets her mastery, undermines her confidence; he irritates because he knows more about wines and paintings, he interrupts a tete a tete, mains a jambes in Tony's study, and his seductive offers of stability and the seductress whom he offers woo Tony away from her. Tony is unimportant, but her pride is up; she must defeat Barrett by getting him back...
...what the Spaniards call "much woman" and the French "une femme plantureuse." Italians once called Gina Lollobrigida "La Gina Nazionale." They now call Sophia Loren "La Sophia Seducènte." They prefer the seductress. Gina was, in their curious view, too refined. Sophia, they say, is a woman of the people, their dònna popolana...
...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...