Word: amnesiaize
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...Army major (James Garner) privy to top-secret details of the Allied landings in Normandy. On a mission to Lisbon, Garner has been drugged and kidnaped, smuggled off to the Reich as a corpse. He awakes with six years of his life supposedly lost in amnesia. The story becomes credible to him when a lissome blonde nurse (Eva Marie Saint) shows up wearing his mother's wedding band. "We were married two months ago tomorrow," she tells...
...grew older, as dizziness, deafness and amnesia successively set in, Swift lapsed into "incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...
...play's hero (Ben Gazzara) has been abruptly freed of his past at 18 by amnesia suffered in World War I. At the age of 36, he is claimed by several families, and when he stumbles on his real relatives, he begins to loathe the self that was. As a boy, it appears, he was cruel to small animals. He hated his mother (Mildred Dunnock), and she hated him. He crippled his best friend in a fight over a chambermaid. He had an affair with his older brother's wife (Nancy Wickwire), who is more than ready...
France's Jean Anouilh will have two plays on Broadway. Poor Bitos, which was a hit in London, stars Donald (The Caretaker) Pleasence. Traveller Without Luggage is a tragicomedy about an amnesia victim. The Plaster Bambino, Sidney Michaels' second entry (with Ben Franklin), is one of the season's most intriguing dramas. The script, about a con man's production of the Passion Play, combines vaudeville, burlesque, music and a speaking chorus...
...playgoer who wants to cultivate amnesia need only listen to the Jule Styne music and the lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also undid the book. Donald Brook's costumes are deliciously droll, right for the period, and colorful as the frosting on a birthday cake. They should be saved for another show...