Word: dumbness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Little Dumb. Both Wayne and Ford hope and believe that their newest collaboration, soon to be released as The Quiet Man, will be their best yet. If so, it can only add to the complexities that already beset Wayne's crowded life. An unassuming, worrying man who, in the words of one of his best friends, still thinks of himself as "a stagehand who got lucky," Duke is in many respects like a high-school football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats...
...feels that agility is more important than size. Princeton's biggest regular defensive lineman is 198-lb. End Frank McPhee. Says Caldwell: "Most of our heavyweights are on the Jayvee. A slow reactor can't play for us. What we require is, first, speed and second, intelligence. Dumb football players can't play our game...
Unquestionably, the brightest part of the show is, Nita Talbot's portrayal of Gloria, the sexy dumb blonde living in an upstairs apartment. The only way to describe Gloria is to imagine, it possible, a composite of Judy Holiday's Billie Dawn and Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Talbot's deadpan delivery of the brightest lines in the play and her wonderful sense of timing stamp her as the outstanding performer in a capable cast. Anne Jackson as Coralie is light and easy to look at; Hugh Reilly as the sophisticated and suffering mate comes through with the proper nonchalance...
...exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME, May 15,1950), was there too. It portrayed Christ as a tiny figure at the top of a pyramid of grinning masks, so shocked Ensor's contemporaries that it was not displayed...
Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...