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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Guys and Dolls</title>
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		<title>Actress Jean Simmons Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Darnell</dc:creator>
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Jean Simmons, the beautiful actress who was nominated for Oscars for her work in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969), died of lung cancer on Friday night (Jan. 22) at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. The London-born actress would have turned 81 on Jan. 31.
Simmons&#8217; film debut took place in the 1944 British comedy Give Us the Moon, in which she played star Margaret Lockwood&#8217;s younger sister. A couple of years later, she was the snotty teenage Estella, the companion to the reclusive Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt), in David Lean&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated version of Great Expectations (1946). And the following year, she was  an uppity Indian girl with a jewel in her nose  in Michael Powell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Tribute: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial &#8211; Part I
And if Guys and Dolls (1955) was a bore &#8212; just about everyone in this film musical is miscast, from  Brando to Mankiewicz himself &#8212; the director recovered his touch with the  adult (and bizarre)  Suddenly, Last  Summer (1959),  a psychotic psychological drama adapted by Gore Vidal and (officially) Tennessee Williams from Williams&#8217;s own play. (Williams later said he had nothing to do with the film version.) 
The story follows a young woman (Elizabeth Taylor) who is sent to a psychiatric hospital after she suffers a nervous breakdown following some horrific traumatic experience. Things can get quite heady &#8212; bad pun intended &#8212; when you mix  traditional Southern [...]]]></description>
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