Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn Is Green (Warner) a very honest adaptation of Emlyn Williams' stage hit about the intrepid spinster who brought literacy to a Welsh coal town, has all sorts of well-intended ingredients, but as drama and as entertainment they come out lumpily, like somewhat heavy dumplings. There are several reasons. Besides the best one-that it wasn't really a very good play to begin with-the others are honorable minor defeats in an uphill battle. But they help explain why the movie, though it may well have a good run too, is less impressive than the play...
Daughter Emily was thin, graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
Womanly Infiltration. Her organization was not autonomous, and Miss Mac herself had no command as such; as director of the WAVES she merely stood in the background, giving advice and, like a wise spinster aunt, smoothing things out. Her WAVES were a womanly infiltration into certain spots where they could pick up, straighten out and perform some chores even better than...
Boston Adventure attempts not only the Proustian sentence structure and philosophical overtones, but also the use of fantasy as a literary method. Sonia, who spends a disturbing amount of her childhood sleeping on the floor on a pallet, dreams about a wealthy, untouchable Boston spinster named Miss Pride. She met Miss Pride while working as a chambermaid in the Hotel Barstow in Chichester, just outside Boston. "Over and over again," dreams Sonia, "until my eyes closed, I imagined the day on which my parents would die and Miss Pride would come to take me to live at the Hotel...." Eventually...
Nearly all the supporting performances, especially those of Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorhead as a confused spinster, are warm and sympathetic; and young Skippy Homeier captures as remarkably as ever the pathetic, frightening, overtones of the poisoned, pernicious little hero he created on the stage...