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Jean Arthur

Wednesday, May 30th, 1990
Jean Arthur

On film, JEAN ARTHUR is impulsive, but truthful ‑‑ true to the moment, while the moment lasts. She is chaste, but not prudish; she truly inhabits her small, athletic body, and she moves like a dancer with an easy natural volup­tuousness. Her soft, gravelly voice is aston­ishly expressive. And some of her greatest lines aren’t words at all, but an aston­ishing reper­toire of whimpers, sighs, sobs, giggles, and moans.

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