Word: slavey
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...stage a lot: she is Sadie Thompson, she is Tallulah cavorting at Bette Davis show, she is a hillbilly singer on TV, a straight singer of musicomedy songs, the slavey wife of a jealous, roughneck husband. She is not at all a dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing...
...individual kudos, few critics could ignore Olivier for his direction, production and acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...
Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute slavey and Lew Ayres as a kindly doctor triumph over some melodramatic buffeting (TIME...
Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute slavey and Lew Ayres as a kindly doctor triumph over some melodramatic buffeting (TIME...
Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute slavey and Lew Ayres as a kindly doctor (TIME...