Word: charming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero's idealistic mentor, Al Manheim, John (Bachelor Father) Forsythe looks and sounds like the soft-hearted friend to man he was meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress with icy charm. The measure of the production's power is its faithfulness to Budd Schulberg's "blueprint of a way of life that was paying dividends in America in the first half of the 20th century...
Richard Burton plays Jimmy perfectly straight, without the bitter elan and charm of Kenneth Haigh's stage performance. His approach to Jimmy's tirades is a bit too far on the heavy-breathing side for complete conviction, but he has a craggy, intense, remarkably expressive face. Mary Ure's Alison--a role which she created--is fragile, appealing, slightly vapid, and very, very blonde...
...were not enough for the real Eisenhower charm to encompass the Western Hemisphere, now Artist Wyeth has dipped his brush in molten gold and created a veritable...
...Negami and Fujiko Yamanuto, who play the lovers, are aided by their director's sense of timing, which cuts off each of their encounters before the point where the anguish or tenderness would be no longer bearable. Miss Yamanuto's doll-like charm is quite irresistable in a setting of fans, orchards, and gentle snowfall...
...situation to the very limit, which they very well might be doing. It seems a bit ludicrous to hope that a new moral framework (if indeed the whole idea has any meaning), will come from the pens of a group of writers whose entire effect comes from the charm of their introspection and the attractiveness of their subjectivity...