Desperately seeking Mary

“She said also her costume would probably be ‘a blaze of jewels,’ patterned after the image of a Madonna she saw in Rome last year, as contrasted with the gown of shimmering silk worn by Lady Diana in the part.”

To be sure, La Cieca cannot help but wonder if even the divine Mary could rival the brilliance of Carroll Baker in the 1959 “Technirama” version of this religious epic.