Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came my turn, I asked for an interview. The smile vanished and she said, "Oh, can't you let me off this time?" I became the jolly one then, assuring her it wouldn't be bad, and that she should be well conditioned to interviews by this time. "That is just it, there have been so many. Well, come along, we'll get it over with...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
...Booster. Delegates and newsmen who had never seen Dave Beck before were a little startled, not only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...
...last scene proved the whole thing was something of a tragi-comedy in the eyes of the law. At about 10 a.m. Monday morning in Dedham district court a still-sad Harvard speedster stood before the judge who understandingly, with big unconcealed smile and laughter, agreed that penalty enough had already been paid and the case should be filed without fine. . . . Sect. 47, Row MM, Seats...
...years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves or murderers than musicians...