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...Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack's new comedy, Festival, starring Vanessa Brown; G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan, with Jean Arthur; Sayonara: A Japanese Romance, a musical adaptation of James A. Michener's novel by Josh Logan, Paul Osborn and Irving Berlin...
...Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed even more. At times, he prowls about the apartment babbling to himself, or (being...
...play takes an audible second wind with the entrance of Vanessa Brown, captivating, as the pretty, lisping girl who wants very much to become a woman of the world. Her bubbling performance injects charm into an atmosphere of "funny stories for men," without being overdone...
...wrote, directed and acted in the senior class play; Claude Brenner, 23, does aeronautical engineering research at M.I.T.; Ruthie Duskin, 18, already has one book to her credit (Chemi, the Magician), and took top honors at Northwestern's School of Journalism. Smylla Brind, 24. changed her name to Vanessa Brown and has appeared as a bright-looking ingenue in such movies as The Late George Apley and The Heiress...
...picture embellishes the London story with a long, sleepy flashback and some syrupy romantic interest (Vanessa Brown). As a Mexican guerrilla, Lee Cobb gives an intense performance, while Richard Conte is impassioned but too dashing as the peon. In spite of a vigorously photographed ring climax, The Fighter packs little dramatic punch...