Word: troupers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly, to my sober recollection, that she had ruined my play. What I said was phrased in barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play...
...Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...
...gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone for life's long winter...
Last week's theater of Democratic politics had a familiar look. In one act was Adlai Stevenson, with another skilled, polished performance. In another was Harry S. Truman, the 71-year-old trouper, still giving 'em hell...
Cornell Borchers and Armin Dahlen are excellent as the bread parents. So is the blood mother, Yvonne Mitchell, who carries the memory of the concentration camp in her brooding face. The ten-year-old boy is Michel Ray, who comes off as a fine trouper...