Word: waifness
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With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...
BRATTLE THEATER. One of Fellim's masterworks, La Strada--the progression towards Christian Charity of a cruxle weightlifter through his involvement with a mute waif and a wise clown. It is me peccably acted by the three stars Anthony Quinn. Giulietta Massina and Richard Basehart. The times are 5.35 and 9.35. Fellini is unfortunately paired with Frank Capra's predicable filming of a cornball play Arsenic and Old Lace screened at 7:30 with weekend matinee...
...back in 1917. His goal was to establish a refuge for homeless boys, many sent to him by state welfare agencies. Over the years a stream of tattered urchins found their way along U.S. Highway 6, which cuts through nearby Omaha, to Boys Town. In 1938, a wind-battered waif in the movie Boys Town made the place part of American folklore. Arriving at the doorstep with an injured lad slung on his back, he announced to Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy, of course): "He ain't heavy, Father. He's m' brother...
...Charlie had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was a drunk; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence per. He and his half brother Sydney had gone the rounds of London's forbidding schools for the destitute. Chaplin's great creation is a waif in the tradition of Pip and Oliver and David Copperfield. Like Dickens, Chaplin never forgot the wink of the pavement and the leer of the gutter. Also like Dickens, he was enchanted with radical politics -at a proper distance. In fact, despite his sponsorship of Soviet-American friendship meetings...
...CLOWN AND WAIF. This is the particular province of the U.S. musical theater. Every female superstar launched on the American stage in the past decade has been cast as a clown or a waif. Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret...