Word: lilli
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...what begins as magic winds up in the foothills of monotony, the trip is smoothly enough managed, the chief travelers are fun to observe. Lilli Palmer-whether murmuring endearments or, cat in hand, muttering incantations-is seductive and vivacious, and even in the fast company of demons, Rex Harrison provides a mere human being with dash...
...Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...
...perceptive camera work helps to knit together "Thunder Rock's" disorganized incidents; so does some unobtrusive and sensitive music. And the flashbacks themselves are wonderfully paced and staged and acted, showing the careful attention to detail that has turned up in so many subsequent English films. Michael Redgrave, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, and the whole group of minor characters are mutually responsible for the fine quality of the acting. "Thunder Rock" has an unhappy pre-disposition to preach, but it is so well-finished that it gets away with...
...Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...
...high salaries (top: $2,000 per show), O'Keefe supplies such creature comforts for actors as cots during rest periods. He hires understudies for every part, but has not had to use one yet. Refinements of this kind have encouraged such stars as Fredric March, Eva Le Gallienne, Lilli Palmer and Judy Holliday to make their TV debuts on Ford Theater...