Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years...
Thanks mostly to Director Fred Zinnemann, the story goes knocking along like a southerly buster through some bloody-awful bush between Nimmitabel and Jindabyne. Mitchum and Kerr sometimes sound like Aussies-come-lately, but on the whole they manage the loose-elbowed looks and snarly charm of the permanent residents. Peter Ustinov, playing an unmarried remittance man who has to beat the girls off with a waddy, makes a comical old dag. But when it comes to stealing scenes, the actors often have to give way to the dingoes, the wombats, and especially to the endless flocks of sheep that...
These introductions, which immediately relaxed the atmosphere and made it almost intimate, are typical of Simonov's continual interest in other people, an honest concern which lies behind the force of his personal charm as well as the strength of much of his writing. One of the most versatile writers in the Soviet Union, an experienced critic and journalist, a poet, novelist and playwright, K. M. Simonov is best known in this country for his great war novel, Days and Nights, and for such lyrical poems as "Wait for Me" and "Do You Remember." During his brief visit...
Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...
...will probably not have the same kind of effect, and as an admirer of Sir Charles, I would like to record my disappointment. The saving grace of the series was not the ideas presented, for these were points that either have been made already or are dubious, but the charm of Snow himself...