Word: trollope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). In his first straight dramatic role in 17 years, Desi himself joins the cast of So Tender, So Profane, plays the sorely tried brother of a trollop...
...which did more for her figure. And in The Matchmaker she had a chance to be funny again, as a naive, man-shy milliner, and in Some Came Running, opposite Frank Sinatra, she came close to salvaging a silly story with her portrayal of a pigeontoed, sentimental, small-town trollop. Says Sinatra : "When the idea of casting her came up, I just about fell over, because we'd never thought about her. When we started shooting. I knew she was going to be tremendous. Very few girls could jump in my lap and say 'Please love...
...moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...
Married. Betty Lawford, 44, stage and screen actress, famed as the luscious trollop who for a Broadway season languished in a foam bath in The Women; and Barry Buchanan, advertising and public relations executive; in Manhattan...
Mary Anne is the story of a high-class trollop, but the sex is discreetly offered between the lines instead of between the sheets. The heroine reaches the pinnacle of her profession when she becomes the darling of the Duke of York, second son of George III and commander in chief of the army. But her stipend is lean, and she fattens it by peddling army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages...