Word: annabella
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...companion picture, "Wings of the Morning" serves to introduce to the moviegoing public a new and delightful personality - Annabella. A sympathetic performer with a simple, winning charm. She dominates the film from beginning to end, throwing Henry Fonda's performance into the shade...
...handsome horse was what Lord Clontarf (Leslie Banks) saw first in the gypsy camp, but Marie (Annabella) blushed because she thought his comment, ''What a beauty!" was inspired by her. Later the Lord's reaction was more nearly what she wanted: when some highborn ladies snubbed her at a dinner party, Clontarf married her. The ill fate that brought him his death in the hunting field five months later banished Marie from his land. Gypsy lore indicated that in four generations, when "the blood was cleansed" she might return. Back in Ireland after fleeing from the Spanish...
Starring Jean Murat and Annabella the French talking film, "Paris-Mediteannce", will be shown Thursday and Friday in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The picture is purposed to be an exciting adventure story, start with a case of mistaken identity...
...best for them, their loneliness and the simple decorum of their pleasures. In July 14 Director Clair's chief advance is in further developing and expressing the characters of that small troupe of actors that he has slowly assembled for their humane spontaneity. There is beautiful lively Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with the sliding, friendly black eyes, the temper that all his huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There...
...Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract...