Word: miscast
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...amazed at the fortune his painting brought him ("It can't be mine," he said once when someone told him his bank balance. "They've made a mistake at the bank; it must belong to someone else"). He felt miscast as a portraitist: "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession...
Charles Boyer, who is at once a master of schmalz and a very good actor, gives the picture such tone and unity as it has. Miss Bergman occasionally breaks loose with an eager bit of acting, but it is seldom persuasive. As an international tramp, she is as badly miscast as Boyer would be as an All-America fullback; and she is as tactlessly gowned as she is cast...
...tremendous role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
...worse than nonsense; it results from ... a cynical incomprehension of what the people of the world will tolerate from any nation. . . . We could not possibly take that opportunity without deserting our inheritance. Americans as conquerors would be tragically miscast...
...comes off very well because of the contradiction between the nature of the music and of the performer. Sunday it was a Haydn Sonath and a Schubert Impromptu, both of which suffered from the prevailing atmosphere of a Prometheus bound within too-narrow emotional limits. The pieces were both miscast as an overture, but that was the role they were forced to play...