Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincerity, could suggest that Judy Holliday can't sing; nor can it be said that the production, which continues for two and three quarter hours, lacks polish, charm, pathos, sex, love, comedy and music--for it has all these things. And what else could a musical have...
Stouffer added that "another curiosity is the Radcliffe vote. Are the women here less pro-Ike than the Harvard men? If so, this is an exception to what national polls show about sex differences in attitudes in this campaign...
...film bursts along by following a few days in the life of a rather active chanteuse (Silvano Pampanini) who climbs the rungs of the civil service hierarchy faster than anyone of the opposite sex has been able to climb. After seducing the prosecutor assigned to throw her out of town for risque performances she continues with an austere provincial judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing...
...relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half a dozen reasons for crossed wires; and such a complex of race and religion, of family and sex, cannot be cut down without having something like the heart of it cut out. Adapter Libott has nowhere vulgarized the story, Director John Stix has nowhere sensationalized the storytelling, Scene Designer George Jenkins has almost everywhere intensified the atmosphere, but there is seldom any living sense of drama or deep...
...drink and a mistress. His chance comes when a university museum sends him to a South American jungle to search for primitive musical instruments. He takes his mistress along. But, confronted with life in the raw, the girl loses her nerve along with her complexion. What had been overwhelming sex appeal in New York now becomes whining femininity, and a native woman named Rosario, the kind who "picked up her bundle and followed her man without question," wins the hero away with a simple mixture of sex and compliance. The mistress is sent back to New York...