Word: heart-breaking
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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With the performances of Miss Harris and Miss Waters, however, Member of the Wedding can not help being an unusually compelling film. If the camera belies the heroine's adolescence, nothing in Miss Harris' portrayal does. Her tomboyish vibrance in fury and heart-break is so genuine that you forget entirely that the role is a tour de force by an actress twice the age of the character she's portraying. Triumphing over the stereotype of the colored Earth Mother, Miss Waters is a Mammy with more than a hospitable lap. Her portrait of the cook, Bernice, is a rich...