Word: witching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alan Ladd's. As the girl in Giovanni's life, brunette beauty Michele Lee owes all her best lines to nature. Though only 19, she seems to have acquired the false vivacity and hackneyed mannerisms of generations of musicomedy ingenues. Swooping about the stage like a benign witch out of a child's storybook, fortyish ex-Ballerina Maria Karnilova, who plays a mate-hungry widow, is remarkably agile and refreshingly comic...
...Burn, Witch, Burn (American-International) confirms some horrible undergraduate suspicions about faculty wives. It seems they really do put toads...
...instance: the heroine of this picture (Janet Blair), wife of a sociology professor in a small English college, is a witch. Having learned black magic from a sorcerer in Jamaica, she comes back to Britain laden with abracadebris (dead spiders, pickled fingers, esoteric herbs) and secretly begins to bewitch her husband. Her motives are wifely in the best bourgeois tradition: she only wants to keep her husband safe from other witches, and to make sure he does well in his job. He does very well indeed. Before the first reel runs out, he seems certain to become chairman...
What causes all these unfortunate incidents? Just one of the other faculty wives, who also happens to be a witch and who wants her own husband to get that nice cushy job as head of the sociology department. Not much of a movie, but it goes to show what can happen in a community that fails to pay its teachers a living wage...
Still, the show is a triumph. In the main, this is due to Mr. Bradshaw as John the Witch Boy. Mr. Bradshaw's voice, his eloquent facial expressions, and his lithe and graceful movements make everyone forget the production's rough edges. He and Ronald Blau also contribute some excellent incidental music. Mr. Bradshaw's performance is as fine a one as Harvard is likely to see this year...