Word: chaplinitis
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Sweet Charity. Gwen Verdon is the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. She moves to the impulsive music of instinct as a child laughs and a dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
...trying to satisfy his sophisticated clientele, Harvey says he has run up against the tyrannical and ignorant distribution practices of the large companies. The Brattle Theater publishes a list of over a hundred desired films which cannot be shown, including most Garbo, Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers, and Bogart's African Queen...
...premiere promoters hustled Sex Symbol Brigitte Bardot off to Hollywood for the West Coast opening of Viva Maria! and Sex Symbol Sophia Loren had Manhattan all to herself. Well, not all. Such other delightful images as Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin paraded into Broadway's Capitol theater for the premiere of Doctor Zhivago, but the crowd saved the rave for Sophia, who didn't even play in the picture. She just tagged along in white mink cape and Dior gown with Producer Carlo Ponti, her once and future husband. In all the crush, Sophia and Carlo were beaming...
...proves again that she is a vital presence on the screen. Steiger, who makes his beauty-and-the-beast role a seething study of precariously balanced lusts, Ralph Richardson, Siobhan McKenna, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham, all meet the film's exacting standard. In a vivacious debut, Actress Chaplin indicates that a striking resemblance to her father may be somewhat more than skin-deep...
...headlong rush of their interwoven destinies is a subtle, unifying symbol of Zhivago. Trains wail along outside the house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and his family away to the relative safety of the Urals; and Lean bears down on every detail of their flight across an endless white snowscape in which ordinary human values seem suddenly locked in deep freeze...