Playing one of her rare working class girls, Liz is a Las Vegas showgirl who lives in a plastic little apartment and watches old movies on late night television
The ambiance doesn't take shape for Liz; we've heard too much about the diamonds and the yachts and the enormous household staff to believe her in such modest circumstances
Frank D. Gilroy's slight, sentimental script is about practically nothing at all A girl meets a guy (Warren Beatty), they go to bed, they part, they get together again He has a gambling problem, and she's engaged to an older married man who keeps promising to get a divorce The gambler is a ladies' man; clever and suave, he tests his way into the girl's bed and then into her heart
In a lightweight romantic comedy-drama like this, the charm is everything As the gambler, Warren Beatty has it; as the bruised, lonely, overage chorus girl, Liz doesn't Her off-screen aura works 'against' the role, just as Beatty's image as her capricious lover works beautifully for the character Liz tries, though, but she is really too old for this sort of thing, and far too heavy and matronly to pass as a chorus girl kicking up her heels every night to earn a meager living
Beatty transforms the material, making it seem much sharper and brighter than it is His reckless, cocky charm, his clever comic timing, his light seductive voice reveal some of his best work When she catches Beatty's light style, Taylor is pleasant, but when she goes weepy, when Stevens encourages her to play the dramatic actress with style, she misplaces the character
The ambiance doesn't take shape for Liz; we've heard too much about the diamonds and the yachts and the enormous household staff to believe her in such modest circumstances
Frank D. Gilroy's slight, sentimental script is about practically nothing at all A girl meets a guy (Warren Beatty), they go to bed, they part, they get together again He has a gambling problem, and she's engaged to an older married man who keeps promising to get a divorce The gambler is a ladies' man; clever and suave, he tests his way into the girl's bed and then into her heart
In a lightweight romantic comedy-drama like this, the charm is everything As the gambler, Warren Beatty has it; as the bruised, lonely, overage chorus girl, Liz doesn't Her off-screen aura works 'against' the role, just as Beatty's image as her capricious lover works beautifully for the character Liz tries, though, but she is really too old for this sort of thing, and far too heavy and matronly to pass as a chorus girl kicking up her heels every night to earn a meager living
Beatty transforms the material, making it seem much sharper and brighter than it is His reckless, cocky charm, his clever comic timing, his light seductive voice reveal some of his best work When she catches Beatty's light style, Taylor is pleasant, but when she goes weepy, when Stevens encourages her to play the dramatic actress with style, she misplaces the character