Word: rita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...
...Julie Christie had been my mother I don't think I would have forgotten, but Rita Tushingham unfortunately has. Unfortunately, because it gives Guiness an excuse, however lame, to launch into the three-thousand-seventeen-minute story of Dr. Zhivago and his small circle of intimates...
Then we return to the present (c. 1950) where Rita Tushingham has finished listening to the tale we've finished watching. Leaving Guiness, she walks across the top of a huge dam, accompanied by her balalaika and finance. Guiness cries out to the latter. "Can she play?" and the finance replies that Rita has been able to hold her own with a balalaika since birth...
Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all her secrets in booze. Puffy, plainspoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at 47 has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress...
...LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a teen-aged trollop who nearly loses her restless young husband to his motorcycling mate, in a freewheeling portrait of British youth...