Word: candida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beatings," says Dare. "I would never do that. I do couples films." Seka, a porn star who now directs and produces her own films, sees a "tremendous amount of change" because women are rising to positions of power in the field. One currently popular couples film is Candida Royalle's Three Daughters, which seems like a cross between Debbie Does Dallas and The Waltons. Daughters features three college-age sisters groping their way toward adult life, surrounded by randy and caring males, a warm emotional family and a good deal of expensive lingerie. The film cost more than...
Some of Shaw's most engrossing plays (Misalliance, Major Barbara and Man and Superman) are coruscating geysers of thought. Candida is not that sort of drama...
...marital situation comedy a bit like A Doll's House turned upside down. Candida (Joanne Woodward) treats her husband James Morell (Ron Parady) rather like a doll. When the poor devil is thoroughly terrified that she will leave him for the ardent young poet Marchbanks (Tait Ruppert), Candida elects to stay put, and domestic tranquillity is restored...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
What do you bid, James?" Her husband offers "my strength for your defense, my honesty for your surety" and other proprieties of a Victorian gentleman. Marchbanks answers: "My weakness! My desolation! My heart's need!" Candida chooses Morell as the weaker...