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...picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming and gifted ingenue, moves through her scenes winningly. Hildegarde Neff is heavy, magnetic and subtle as the troubled sister-in-law. She has a Dietrich-like voice and a Garbo-like capacity to make silence intensely interesting...
While her husband settled quietly into the insurance business, Gale labored on the wrong side of Hollywood's film tracks in westerns, quicky murders and musicals. "I was no Garbo," she recalls, "just medium lousy. But I loved it. They used to ask me if they could start a new picture or was I pregnant again." TV has brought her greater fame than movies ever did, but Gale insists: "My career is just the frosting on the cake, and I mean that." The girl who used to be Josephine Owaissa Cottle admits cheerfully: "I never had it so good...
Though a far cry from Ninotchka, the 1939 anti-Communist comedy starring Garbo, Mr. Potts does have some fun with the stuffy officialdom of both East and West...
...Audrey brings to the screen is not dependent on her figure, her face, her accent (which is neither quite British nor quite foreign) or even her talent. Belgian-born (of a Dutch mother and an Anglo-Irish father), she has, like all great actresses from Maude Adams to Greta Garbo, the magic ability to bridge the gap between herself and her audience, and to make her innermost feelings instantly known and shared...
Dream Time (Martha Lou Harp; Columbia LP). An intriguing vocal that has a hint of Johnnie Ray's edginess and intensity. But the voice is sometimes so concealed in foggy echoes that it might be Garbo singing. With a wispy accompaniment of harp and organ. Songstress Harp runs the gamut from artfully seductive (in Paradise) to reflectively sensuous (in By the Bend of the River...