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GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Britain's Rita Tushingham is cute, earnest, cunning, brassy and just about everything else that a movie actress should be in this warm ly witty account of an Irish colleen's romance with an aging author (Peter Finch...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. She seemed too good to be true in A Taste of Honey. In her second picture, Liverpool's Rita Tushingham, 22, seems even better than that: a girl who both acts like an angel and looks like a star. Peter Finch plays her middle-aged lover and plays him well, but Rita's dazzling presence turns Finch to sparrow...
...eyes are the eyes of Rita Tushingham, the 22-year-old daughter of a Liverpool grocer who in her first screen role, the pregnant tomboy in A Taste of Honey (1962), played like an adolescent Duse but seemed almost too good to be true. In this picture she demonstrates beyond doubt that she is no one-time wonder. She is a woman to the camera born, a magnificent natural actress with a face of inexhaustible expressiveness, the face of an English Gioconda...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...