Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more contribution to the 20th century thought-world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...
...more contribution to the 20th century thought-world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...
...Like its sister organization, Radio Free Europe (TIME, July 17, 1950), R.F.A. was founded by a group of private U.S. citizens* who feel that the Voice of America, though effective in its way, is sometimes hampered because of "good & sufficient reasons of national policy." Explains Director John W. Elwood: "Because we nave no Government ties, we can say anything we damn please." For the present, R.F.A.'s transoceanic voice will be limited to 75 minutes of news and interpretation, six days a week...
Within the limits of Hollywood's self-censoring Production Code, the movie follows the play's story faithfully. Again Blanche Du Bois moves into her sister's squalid New Orleans flat, the last stop on her alcoholic, nymphomaniac flight from a tide of troubles: a long siege of family deaths, the withering away of family fortune, the suicide of her young husband, the loss of her home, her job, her reputation. She still clings to a pretense of genteel propriety. But when she crosses Stanley Kowalski, her roughneck brother-in-law, he drags out her past...
...cinema version reunites the play's author, who worked on the script, its director, Elia Kazan, and most of the original principals, including Marlon (The Men) Brando as the tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...