Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene is the Dublin drawing room of Sophia Sheridan (stylishly played by Meriel Moore), a retired actress who is helping a local little theater group do a play about Ireland's legendary Princess Etáin and her faery lover Midir. But while these people are languidly puttering around with legend, the real Etáin and Midir (nicely played by Helena Hughes and Playwright MacLiammóir) are working as Mrs. Sheridan's parlormaid and houseman. Immortals who have strayed far & long from fairyland, they go back to it, hand in hand...
What Playwright Coward misses most in the current version is Actor Coward. The Coward-Lawrence stage teamwork had constituted a talent in itself. This time Actress Lawrence's agility only emphasizes British Actor Graham Payn's lack...
...Beautiful European actress introduced to American movie audiences in The Paradine Case...
This rather florid drama is written with considerable Broadway sleekness by Garson Kanin and his wife, Actress Ruth Gordon, and is appropriately directed by George Cukor. It offers Signe Hasso her best chance to date to prove that her beauty and talent deserve better roles than she usually gets; Newcomer Shelley Winters makes a sure hit as a waitress...
...players try to be as true to life as the living city, and many of them come very close to it. James Stewart manages to mug a little now & then, but by & large his performance is exceptionally modest, and as good as his best. The Polish actress, Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick...