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Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...other show, the script might have spelled disaster. There was the ambitious momma, dead set on getting daughter into show business-but with enough maternal instinct left over to mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Oldest Alive | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. A rage to teach fires some first-rate action about a child-intoxicated woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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