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Under the surprisingly unimaginative direction of Anatole Litvak the film plays a sad game of Hollywood tag with a Romanoff myth. Ingrid Bergman, the poor heroine, is taken in tow by a group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order to get their hands on her unclaimed inheritance. They plough all the proper aristocratic graces and memories into the haunted girl, and finally present her to the dowager empress (Helen Hayes). The pupil now and then surprises her tutors with fragments of memories that could come only from the real...
Orpheus & Romanoff. Patrick Dennis's bestselling novel Auntie Mame will star Rosalind Russell. Samuel (Boy Meets Girl) Spewack will try to reconquer Broadway with Once There Was a Russian. Britain's Peter (The Love of Four Colonels) Ustinov will make his bid with Romanoff and Juliet. Terence Rattigan will offer two comedies that amused London for a couple of seasons, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Tennessee Williams' newest, Orpheus Descending, will descend on Broadway with Italy's Oscar-winning Anna Magnani...
...Scopes & Romanoff. Hays, the only lawyer in his time to bear the names (more or less) of three Republican Presidents (his family name was originally Haas), pursued his liberal ways as a Republican, a Bull Mooser, a Farmer-Laborer, a La Follette Progressive, a New Deal Democrat, and finally as a rugged independent. If he was inconstant in his politics, he spent his life in single-purposed dedication to man's right to his own freedom. It made no difference to Hays if he happened to disagree with a client's views: the heart of the matter...
...assistant counsel to Clarence Darrow, he defended John Thomas Scopes in Tennessee, and he helped Samuel Leibowitz defend the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama. When "Prince" Mike Romanoff got into passport difficulties and when William Randolph Hearst had his private telegrams subpoenaed by a congressional committee, Hays came to their...
...Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating Rasputin, the magnetic evil genius of the Czar and Czarina. On the night of Dec. 29, 1916, the prince, aged 29, lured Rasputin to the basement of his St. Petersburg home and, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, fed him cakes and wine sprinkled...