Word: shyness
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Miss Fontaine, in her performance of a girl whose shyness is pitiful to watch, is the best part of this movie. She spends a great deal of time listening entranced to Jourdan's piano playing and hiding behind curtains and doors, but manages to smile wistfully, even while sinning...
James Barrie said of James's smile: "It brought one down like Leatherstocking's Killdeer ... it was a part of him chuckling at the other parts of him." But James was always getting into trouble with his cumbersome shyness. Once in Europe at a table d'hôte, he ordered a bottle of wine in order to get up nerve enough to talk to the lady beside him, then spilled it on her. She forgave him, and he ordered another bottle-and spilled that one on her also...
...verge of movie stardom (as Joan of Arc), a mining town proletariette (Valli) dies of overwork and the effects of her impoverished childhood. A publicity genius (Fred Mac Murray), who has long loved her but, with a pressagent's shyness, dared not speak of the matter, takes her body back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar...
...Robinson's father permitted him to attend Harvard as a "special student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large...
...rehearsal for the London première of Peter Grimes, Composer Britten was all over the stage, his enthusiasm overcoming his shyness, begging his singers to act their parts instead of grimacing and posturing. There were few in the Met's cast who didn't realize what they were up against. Soprano Regina Resnik is a Britten veteran: she had sung in his Rape of Lucretia in Chicago last year (TIME, June 9). But Tenor Frederick Jagel, who sings the leading role, was worried: "This is so tough dramatically that it becomes tough musically...