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The show stars Jo Van Fleet as the possessive Mamma of the title. Making her first entrance in an eccentric mourning outfit (beautifully designed, like all the others costumes, by Patricia Zipprodt), she looks for all the world like the Black Lady from a Charles Addams cartoon. She goes through...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad,' etc. | 3/21/1962 | See Source »

Your cover would make Charles Addams happy, Dorian Gray jealous, and Herblock anxious.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Who's to blame? Partly Cassel, mostly Director Philippe de Broca. As before, De Broca has cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Messy Mnages | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

The wardrobe he bade Motley create is motley indeed. Orlando spends his time in overalls (who ever heard of a fairy-tale hero's heading for the altar in overalls?). His brother Oliver wears riding habit, carries cigars, and flourishes a cigarette lighter. The usurping Duke Frederick is decked out...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: As You Like It | 7/13/1961 | See Source »

Asked about his favorite U.S. vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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