Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries and a priest throws them...
...producer's next play, about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young girl, is headed nowhere. Realizing that he is a has-been, Gable decides to quit Broadway, fires his 22-year-old secretary (Carroll Baker). She turns on him and snarls: "I love you. I hope you rot for spoiling love for me with other men. You did a terrible thing to me. You opened my eyes and heart and never touched me.'' So he touches her. There, by golly, is the twist he needs. The young girl in his play should...
...trail at once. Sapphire was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and the fiancee of a pallid architecture student (Paul Massie), who has just won a scholarship for study in Italy. When autopsy shows that she was three months pregnant, the murder motive seems clear: the young architect's scholarship makes no provision for wife or baby; he and his ambitious family would not stop short of murder to see to it that they had a Wren rather than a turkey in the oven...
...arresting snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Eliot, in which the wrinkled old (71) poet stands with his arms looped fondly but awkwardly around the neck of his wholesome young (32) wife, his face caught in a quizzical expression, half doubt and half delight-a portrait of J. Alfred Prufrock, who has dared to eat a peach...
...time is 1767, and great political and social changes are on the way. but the Di Rondo family is as impervious to change as only true eccentrics can be. When young Cosimo, an alarmingly imaginative twelve-year-old, has a run-in with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century...