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Died. Louise Beavers, 60, Ohio-born cinemactress, stereotype of a jolly Southern mammy as the screen's Aunt Delilah and TV's Beulah, though she neither liked nor knew how to make flapjacks; of diabetes; in Hollywood, Calif...
...days at a cost of $75,000, Henry in more than one sense sets the industry back 33 years-it has negligible dialogue and virtually no plot. A frustrated husband makes dream-sequence love to the great volupines of history, even playing lava boy to a cave woman. From Delilah to Pocahontas, however, they all seem to have been rented from the same dairy. Says Producer Edward E. Paramore III: "It beat Ten Commandments by $500, opening night in San Pedro. You're not going to get our kind of success on nudes alone. Naked girls are a glut...
...Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances (not as her Biblical namesake but as Delilah of the "soft, yielding flesh and evil painted face"), give Preacher Hamilton the torments. Finally, Sister Mercedes, who cannot help noticing, has a conniption...
...gave their audience the full catalogue of spins and jumps, lifts, and meshed-gear movements that they are famed for. The Graham company offered two new numbers: a rollicking, Shakespeare-inspired romp called One More Gaudy Night, and Visionary Recital, a somewhat murky exposition on the three faces of Delilah (Awakener, Betrayer, Seducer) in which Martha Graham (as Awakener) triumphed over her 67 years with a modicum of disciplined effort. Neither of them was topflight Graham but both were performed with top-drawer skill that kept overflow audiences applauding long after the curtain came down...
...theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil B. DeMille and such things as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. But when I saw the script, I decided that the role of Jesus is absolutely not a religious clich...