Word: adventuress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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H.P.B.-as she is known to her followers-was a large and lusty adventuress who rolled her own cigarettes, gave birth to at least one illegitimate son, and stage-managed seances to "prove" her claims to supernatural powers. Granddaughter of a Russian princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found...
...invited them to Marlborough House next month to attend the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Edward's mother, Queen Mary -the first official recognition ever extended the duchess by Buckingham Palace. Ironically, Queen Mary was unforgiving all her life of the woman she described as "an adventuress"-and never...
...behind a large mustache, possibly to conceal the fact that he is hopelessly miscast as a bomb-toting French anarchist. In her title role, Sophia gleams like a crown jewel plunked down in a series of velvety settings to no particular purpose, though she is droll as a pregnant adventuress who has to decide whether to marry and let her son be born a duke. "It's a good career for a boy," she muses. Writer Ustinov seems to be improvising party games for a page-to-screen adaptation that stalemated various other Hollywood wags off and on since...
Despite doggedly second-line direction, A Man Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts...
...young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because all choices seem meaningless. Ultimately, meaninglessness infects the film as a whole, and Indifference is remarkable only for Steiger's highly concentrated performance as a doughy but vigorous go-getter whose lechery lends an acetylene...