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Leslie Howard's delicately crafted Ashley Wilkes manages to embody both the glamor and the shoddiness of the Southern gentleman myth. Set against Gable's robustness, his sensitivity and final impotence illuminates the inadequacy of the chivalric code of honor in nineteenth-century industrial America. Olivia de Havilland triumphantly transforms the ludicrously good-natured Melinie Wilkes into a full-blooded character. Thanks to Miss De Havilland, Melanie's mild goodness becomes a genuine and ever-increasing source of strength for the other characters. The film wisely refrains from showing the scene in which she restores Gable's sanity; we have...
Returning to Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going...
...generation sophisticated by Godard, Fellini and Bergman, Gone With the Wind may at times seem unbearably square. The lack of cinematic verite palls during the film's long, unfocused second half. By the end of G.W.T.W., Melanie's eternal benevolence, as faithfully enacted by Olivia de Havilland (the last surviving star of the film), is almost insufferably cloying. Still, the sweep and power of the story are there, the burning of Atlanta remains one of the finest battle scenes ever filmed. Gable never played Gable better, and never was the glowing ideal, or illusion, of fiery Southern girlhood...
...thinks it's the only way to fly," observed Richard Burton, 41, explaining why he had bought a "Hawker Siddeley de Havilland Twin Jet 125, one million dollars, seats ten, two beds, toilette, kitchen, bar, 600 miles per hour." Name Elizabeth. The munificent gift to Mrs. B. was a token of "the huge success of The Taming of the Shrew, of which we have a very large percentage," said Burton. And no worry about the family coffers being depleted. The Burtons are tucking another $2,000,000 under the mattress in Sardinia, where they are making Goforth, the hopeful...
...from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...