Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a pair of demons Strindberg has mated here. An embittered captain of Swedish artillery and his frustrated wife, a former actress, are serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
These two performances make Deborah Jean Templin's Desiree look very good by comparison. Templin, who plays an actress who is always on and the director of the matrimonial musical chairs, has life, presence and a wardrobe of elegant costumes. She can also sing--not as stunningly, perhaps, as one might wish, but well enough to convey the poignant irony of the show's finest song, "Send in the Clowns." In her case, a stronger directorial hand would surely have added luster to an already adequate performance...
Lois Nettleton, who plays Christina, says she has modeled her own character on Clark Gable, which may be the best clue yet to what All That Glitters is about. Barbara Baxley, the terrifying L.W., says that she didn't need a model. "As an actress, I've been aggressive and independent most of my life." She adds: "The great fun of the show is that Norman has created a whole new world. The cast has discovered that men and women are mutually misunderstood. If this show isn't considered revolutionary -and if people don't understand...
Keaton's whole career, in fact, has been spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart, she was, she says with double underlining, "just sick. There were all these other women there to try out for the part, and I was scared to death." And she probably could not have walked on to do her bit-if it wasn't so obvious that Allen...
Ullmann achieves the alchemy of a fine actress with this dross. Under her magnetic touch, her commanding presence, her lustrous eyes, the base metal of O'Neill's drudgery seems, at times, to glisten. She is aided by the direction of José Quintero, who has a hand-in-glove affinity with all the works of O'Neill. Unfortunately, in this particular instance he is reduced to the condition of a Boy Scout trying to strike fire by rubbing one stick. T.E. Kalem