Word: barbara
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hifalutin Ideas. Well-poised Miss Memphis, Barbara Jo Walker, had the most of that. To her own piano accompaniment, she sang The First Kiss, and Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madame Butterfly. For good measure, she presented the judges with three pastel art works of her own creation. At 47 minutes after midnight on the pageant's fifth night, the dark-haired singer from Memphis was crowned Miss America...
From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...
...Long Night. Stertorous but exciting drama about a trapped killer and why he did it. Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ann Dvorak (TIME...
...been in love with an innocent-seeming girl (Barbara Bel Geddes), but had begun to doubt her: it looked as if she might be secretly carrying on with an aging and odious magician (Vincent Price). The rest of their story bears some relation to Othello: a profoundly depraved man tortures a profoundly simple one with lies, half-lies and ugly possibilities about the young girl until the anguished hero, his trust destroyed, kills his tormentor...
...grand-scale social meaning to an essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda often counts too much on a sort of adenoidal pathos; Ann Dvorak is not very convincing as the other woman; and only Barbara Bel Geddes, making her screen debut, is really satisfactory...