An iffy actress, as likely to give bad performances (My Favorite Wife, The White Cliffs of Dover) as good ones (Life with Father, Anna and the King of Siam), Irene Dunne never bettered the extraordinarily centered one she gave as Helen Hudson, who waits a lifetime—well, seven years—to see again her benefactor, the playboy who […]
Daily Archives: May 27, 2008
A moral quandary: You are a mother whose child has been kidnapped to secure your silence as the political assassination plot you know about unfolds. You are there, in Albert Hall, when the crash of cymbals during a performance will mean the murder of the visiting foreign dignitary. To rescue this stranger may mean sacrificing […]
