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...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...
...Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted from Sicily to the Gulf Coast. Since the death of her husband, a small-time smuggler, she has turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about...
Like all but the greatest grotesques, The Rose Tattoo sets out so furiously to heighten the flavors of reality that the meat of the thing is soon lost in its seasoning; and only a moviegoer who can take his peperone straight will be able to judge if the picture is really hot stuff...
...Rose Tattoo (Perry Como; Victor). A brief, misty legend in slow waltz tempo, from the forthcoming movie version of the Tennessee Williams play. It seems that some fellow got tattooed as a gesture of his undying love, and then he died, and the poor girl will "wait her whole life through" for him to return...
...serves his readers a dry Manhattan-four-parts fun to one-part reporting. Now a balding 48, Sylvester covers a bright-light beat that ranges from the East Side Chinese Laundromat called "Helpee Selfee" to the West Side gypsy who advertises "all fortunes guaranteed," from the Bowery tattoo parlor which offers "personalized monograms" to the swank Sutton Place apartment building which prohibits "beggars, baby carriages, bicycles or foreign cars in the lobby." The freshness of Sylvester's approach stems from innate curiosity, a versatile talent (he has written six novels, one movie script, is collaborating on a musical...