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Weddings' hero is a small-tirne commercial photographer (John Myhers) who lives in his store-front studio in the Village and shares his cot with his "model" (Viveca Lindfors). She keeps nagging him to marry her, he keeps dodging. Underneath the usual evasions lies, of course the usual fear of life, but he'll be damned if he's going to open that can of worms. ) they bicker, make up, get engaged take his mother (Chiarina Barile) to an old folks home, trail her all over town when she runs away, bicker, break up. The crisis comes...
...produce-even though most of the big scenes were shot on the cheap in Yugoslavia. More than 3,000 Yugoslav peasants and some 4,500 cavalrymen of the Yugoslav army are employed as camera fodder. To top it off, nine big names (Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors, Geoffrey Horne, Oscar Homolka, Agnes Moorehead, Helmut Dantine, Finlay Currie, Vittorio Gassman) have been stacked on the billboards like a packet of insurance policies...
...Viveca Lindfors as an English lady whose disquieting and perhaps murderous past catches up with her years later in Africa...
...Golden Six is Off-Broadway Maxwell Anderson and it is badly off the beam. The contemporary theater's most avid creator of historical drama, Playwright Anderson this time has swooped down on Rome during the last years of Augustus, when the Emperor and his powerful wife Livia (Viveca Lindfors) look forward to a continuing family empire, while most of the family prospects are shown scheming backward to a republic. Proffering history in great swigs and histrionics in huge gobbets, the play staggers and plunges on through a brace of reigns, amid dedicated and degenerate heirs, with Livia...
Though there were sound male performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred...