Word: spinsterism
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...than skill, pandemonium rather than tension. But since, even in 1920, The Bat aimed at the funnybone as well as the spine, it would perhaps be a mistake to concentrate on one or the other now. What it could use is better acting: only Lucile Watson as the imperious spinster, and Zasu Pitts at moments as the maid, are up to the roles. But The Bat is fair fun even when it doesn't connect with the ball...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists). Director John Huston's Techni-colored version of C. S. Forester's novel about a prissy spinster and a gin-swilling skipper; with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...
...Cuckoo (by Arthur Laurents) concerns Americans in a Venetian pensione, and some of the more controversial points of international love. While a pair of elderly Babbitts dutifully take in the sights, a young American painter, despite his love for his wife, strays with his worldly landlady; and a lonely spinster, Leona Samish (Shirley Booth), becomes involved with an antique-shop owner (Dino DiLuca).All the more romantic about love for never having known the reality, Leona has a saddening experience. Not only does she find that the man is married; he cannot pay for the garnets he has given...
Island of Desire (David Rose; United Artists) defies all the laws of probability by casting shapely Linda Darnell as a waspish spinster. Stunningly photographed in Technicolor, Actress Darnell portrays Lieut. Elizabeth Smythe, a Navy nurse who is washed up on an uninhabited Pacific island after a troopship is sunk during World War II. Washed up with her is a blond, boyish Marine corporal (Tab Hunter...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...