Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
Miss Winters has made a fine showing, especially after her long career as a sultry siren of the South Seas. She acts with no great fund of experience, but with intelligence and emotion. Elizabeth Taylor manages to play the rich young lady as a warm and sympathetic human being, not a type. Add to that natural physical charm and you've got a good deal. Clift plays a character between these two extremes of drabness and vivacity, and he moves easily and naturally from one life to the other...
...subject for more than a split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal of time on the sound effects for the film. They are no more than the wail of a distant siren, or the call of a loon on a lake, but they are immensely effective...
Susan Hayward, 32, a pert-nosed, durable redhead who after 29 routine pictures is being molded to super siren parts. Her current picture: David and Bathsheba...
...lead plane in the big review. But the rest of the year, Vasily Stalin is a mysterious figure. Sometimes Red newspapers interview him, but never identify him as his father's son. A few have seen his wine-red Mercedes-Benz convertible racing through Moscow's streets, siren wailing, and seen the police clearing a way through traffic. Others have seen him carousing in Moscow's clubs. Only two photographs of him have ever come out of Russia...