Word: varsi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...screenplay manages to connect the reporter who discovered Judd's glasses, his girl (Diane Varsi), and the homicidal pair. Artie urges Judd to assult the girl on a bird-watching date, and this crisis recreates the conflicts of the murder ("You're not that cruel, Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie...
Moody, promising Cinemactress Diane (Peyton Place) Varsi, with two husbands behind her at 21, collected her 2½-year-old son Shawn and a wicker suitcase of possessions, flew off to settle in Vermont. Snapped troubled Diane: "I just don't want to act any more. I find it destructive to me. I don't ever plan to return to Hollywood." Hoping otherwise, 20th Century-Fox, which has title to almost five more years of Diane's services, gave her an indefinite leave of absence...
...Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband...
...door. Joe feels pretty foolish, but he feels worse than that when he comes to understand the crimes he has committed in the name of power. He has broken up his daughter's love match with a trumpet player, and let his wife put the girl (Diane Varsi) through what looks suspiciously like an abortion. He has twisted his son's life by forcing the boy (Ray Stricklyn) to give up his music and go to Yale. And he has wasted his own life by spending it with a woman he does not love...
...role as the old maid schoolteacher without whom no small town is complete. But there is much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...