Word: belinda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irrelevantly titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable...
...part of Aeneas makes the best use of James Perrin's good voice. Ruth Beaver, who stepped in to sing Belinda at the last minute, and Anna Shackford make their duct, "Fear no danger to ensue," the loveliest aria of all. Malcolm Holmes has unusual success in getting the very most out of his able orchestra and chorus. Most exciting of all is Judith Haskell's choreography...
...Nunnally Johnson's Three Came Home ought to be better than it is. The title itself eliminates any long-sustained suspense, and reduces the story largely to a string of loosely connected episodes, e.g., an attempted rape, the machine-gunning of out-of-bounds prisoners. Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco works so hard at building up the tension each time that the picture verges at times on old-fashioned melodramatics...
...Hasty Heart (Warner) is so far off Hollywood's beaten track that its ad writers are frantically trying to represent it as the same old stuff. Warner, which offered Johnny Belinda as a gamy rape story and Treasure of Sierra Madre as a film in which "women sold their souls," now hints pretty broadly of something sexy in The Hasty Heart. Adapted from John Patrick's 1945 Broadway hit, the film deals with nothing spicier than the last days of a proud, lonely Scottish soldier who is dying in a British army hospital in Burma. What makes...
Lead roles for the opera include Adele Milhender from the Longy School of Music who will sing Dido, Katherine Griffith, a graduate student in music at Radcliffe singing Belinda, James Perrin '50 who will sing Aeneas, and Wilfred Pickles '50 playing a sailor. Malcolm Holmes '28 will conduct the undergraduate orchestra...