Word: sluttishness
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...Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a film version of the 1950 Broadway hit play (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950) about a reformed drunk and his sluttish wife, starring Shirley Booth, who appears to be a cinch for a best-actress nomination (see below...
...under constant pressure. A harassed jeweler (Anthony Ross) lives over his shop with his long-suffering, short-tempered wife (Margaret Feury). Their son won't take a job in the shop and can't keep a job elsewhere; their grown daughter can only have stylish dates on sluttish terms; their neglected, bewildered eight-year-old runs away...
Katharine Cornell is competent and lively as Cleopatra, but hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...
Stranded Passengers. Juan Chicoy and his sharp-tongued, sluttish wife, Alice, ran a restaurant, filling station and garage at Rebel Corners. Once a day, Juan in his bus, Sweetheart, shuttled Greyhound bus passengers from one main north-south highway to another. Juan was a dark and sinewy Irish-Mexican whom his wife loved passionately and feared a little "because he was a man, and there aren't very many of them...
...picture of "Tobacco Road," worthy of the book, as great as the play, equal to the "Grapes of Wrath." John Ford was selected for director. Charley Grapewin, one of the finest character actors in films, was given the role of Jeeter Lester. Gene Tierney was selected for the sluttish Lester daughter after a far-flung talent search. The best photographers in Hollywood, superb make-up artists, perfectly realistic sets were assembled. Hollywood held its breath and Darryl F. Zanuck counted the Academy Awards...