Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...
...hardly read the signposts of the plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...
...makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming and gifted ingenue, moves through her scenes winningly. Hildegarde Neff is heavy, magnetic and subtle as the troubled sister-in-law. She has a Dietrich-like voice and a Garbo-like capacity to make silence intensely interesting...
...General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English lady joins battle with a simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...
...clock shadow, Benedict and Whedon make all their blondes big, brassy, busty, and boisterous--as they should be in this type of show. The kickline is good, as is an advertiser's beauty contest illuminated by excellent costuming. The one brunette in the cast, Electra's artsy-craftsy sister Chris, played with cross-eyed humor by William Wood, is a suitably bizarre love interest for the playwright. Her great concern with Green which Village Art versus Madison Avenue Commercialism, if a bit overddone, provides some of the best laughs...