Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emil Jannings, too, does a monumental job as the stern professor of Romantic persuasion who comes to his downfall through the love of a wicked woman. He is a superb actor, registering, with amazing fidelity, emotions ranging from fatuous mooning over Lola to enraged jealousy at the sight of another man making love to her. And Director Josef von Sternberg is another amazing factor. With sparse dialogue and excellent direction, he casually achieves effects for which lesser men would waste pages of dialogue...
...superb craftsman. He was not afraid of greasepaint. He had a deep, warm understanding of suffering. He was immensely diligent. And he produced some granitic, unforgettable plays. Yet Brown -his many Browns-never quite added up to the great American tragedy...
...Captain's Paradise" is Guinness superb. Celia Johnson is the perfect homebody; Yvonne De Carlo is perfect in her way too. A splendid comedy. At the Paris...
...daughter to the Caliph, drake is even more personable than he was in Kiss Me Kate. Drake is onstage almost continuously,a nd his jaunty gusto as he revels in the foolishness of the script sets the tone and pace of the whole production. With a sturdy baritone and superb diction, Drake gives his songs far better treatment than they deserve, projecting all to clearly some atrocities in the lyries, but making a number like "Gesticulate" seem quite imaginative...
...Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver's seat) to take the lap in a record 115.4 m.p.h. On the next lap, the course levels out and straightens, and from Durango to the Rio Grande, through Parral and Chihuahua, Driver Maglioli demonstrated the superb straightaway speed that was built into his Ferrari. Over the final 222.5 miles he set his third straight lap record-138.4 m.p.h.-one of the fastest sustained road-race averages ever recorded. But it was not enough to overcome the leads that the Lancias had built up back...