Word: suitoring
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...itself as solemnly as Gone With the Wind, and seems to last almost as long. For a couple of reels Lotta yearns for the stage before Producer Jessel lets her go on; then he takes her on a tour that dawdles like an actor poring over his scrapbook. Her suitor follows on horseback. First she thinks he is a gambler, then a bandit, before he emerges proudly as a Southern patriot...
Despite the premium put on their displaying a bag of tricks, both Leigh and Brando may well be heading for Academy Awards. Likewise, Kim Hunter does an outstanding job in the supporting role of Stanley's wife Stella, and Karl Malden is excellent as an awe-struck suitor. Camera work and the musical score are both exceptional. But the net effect of Kazan's direction is more controversial. He has charged the atmosphere to the saturation point with crisis and climax. After two hours trapped in a narrow room with Blanche, sitting under her spray of words alternately cloying...
...Make It Legal" is a lawyer's nightmare and a layman's trauma. A Grade C boff at best, the plot concerns divorce, an old suitor, and a former husband, plus the usual welter of theatrical cliches...
...adopted daughter, romantically re-christened Carmen, grew tall, graceful and dignified. José never let her suspect that she was not his real daughter. In 1949, when Carmen was working in a foundry in Valencia, she got an offer of marriage. Her suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young...
...fortune, the suicide of her young husband, the loss of her home, her job, her reputation. She still clings to a pretense of genteel propriety. But when she crosses Stanley Kowalski, her roughneck brother-in-law, he drags out her past, and thus strips the illusion from the gullible suitor she has all but hooked. Finally, while his wife is in the hospital having a baby, Kowalski brutally ravishes Blanche and pushes her completely over the edge of sanity...