Word: woodward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, as the film tells it, is a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre. The hero (Yul Brynner) is a gloomy and passionate young man. The heroine (Joanne Woodward) is his ward, a gay young sprig on a rotten family tree. The Compsons have been drunk for a couple of generations, and have long since sold their birthright for a mess of corn liquor. The only thing left is the peeling old plantation house, and there the last of the Compsons live on the charity of the hero, who has become a Compson by adoption and is determined to redeem...
...some barracking good family quarrels and a couple of memorably steamy scenes of decadence. The direction, by Martin (The Long, Hot Summer) Ritt, is sure and vigorous. The acting is excellent. Actor Brynner, once the mind stops boggling at his henna-rinsed toupee, tugs powerfully at the sympathies. Actress Woodward, despite her tendency to develop mannerisms instead of a style, gives a winning and intelligent impression of an ugly duckling at the moment when she becomes a swan...
...long afterward Miss Woodward appeared. She wore an orange coat and an orange, flowery, wrap-around hat. Miss Woodward, who is actually not Miss Woodward at all (she is the wife of actor Paul Newman), accepted with grace a suggestion from one of the Harvards that she is a very feminine person indeed. "I could hardly be more feminine than I am at the present," she observed pleasantly. She said she expects her first child in a month...
...Miss Woodward was then asked whether she could compare and contrast her talent with that of other recipients of the Hasty Pudding award. The list includes Debbie Reynolds and Mamie Eisenhower. "A question like that presupposes an evaluation of their talent," she said hesitantly. "I guess to be a hostess like Mrs. Eisenhower requires talent. I certainly wouldn't want that kind of a job--but, yes, it certainly must require talent. Debbie and I talk about what we'd like to do. I'd like to play in a musical, and she wants to play dramatic roles...
...Miss Woodward will appear in a forthcoming movie. And the Hasty Pudding has its annual show in the works...