Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billed as "Hollywood's newest heartthrob," hawk-faced Vittorio Gassman makes himself thoroughly despicable as Anna's chief debaucher. Raf Valone is the straight man who loves Anna for something besides the obvious. Jaques Dumesnil, playing an elderly surgeon-philosopher, and Patrizia Mangano, Silvana's sister, fill out a competent cast. Written by Nino Rota, the music smooths over some rough spots in the plot and dialogue, effectively supplementing the film's emotional crises...
When the Marine Corps began recruiting women back in 1943, there was doubt in a great many minds as to just how the ideal young lady leatherneck ought to look and act. But hundreds of officers and men, as well as hundreds of admiring sister marines, gave no more thought to the problem after one look at a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), attractive brunette lady lieutenant named Julia E. Hamblet. "Judy," a Vassar graduate (economics and field hockey) from Winchester, Mass., looked like a girl who was born to pose for a recruiting poster...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Sister Angelica...
...slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
...after-dinner drink of rum, brandy, chocolate and crème de cacao. Still feeling a little hungry, she then ordered another portion of Mozzarella. With the same verve and energy, she keeps the long-distance wires hot to some 60 disk jockeys, as well as to her sister Betty (a nightspot singer who records on the Coral label) and several other members of the Clooney and Guilfoyle families of Maysville...