Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Babe, who had appeared with Morgan in "Caucasian Chalk Circle" earlier in the year, and John Casey assumed the leads. Their characters provide the film's continuity, as they stroll around Radcliffe and later along the bank of the Charles, hamming their way through all of the essentially unrelated scenes they stumble upon. All of the cast worked without pay. At Morgan's request they also signed a Model Release form waiving their rights to sue the producer for anything in the movie which might subject them to "ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn and indignity...
...illuminating example of the trials of movie-making is the bit in which Casey and Babe are seen peering through an open window as Miss Rosten prepares her breakfast. Actually half of the shooting took place from inside the kitchen of Gilman House at Radcliffe. The street-view shots of the Peeping Toms, however, were taken outside the Owl Club, because the first-floor level there made peeping somewhat easier than the greater height from the ground of the Gilman kitchen. When Miss Rosten seems to be pulling the shade on her uninvited guests, the shading is actually being performed...
...picture a devoted fan when, in the 162nd game of the season, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees (or maybe Ted Kluszewski of the Los Angeles Angels) whales his 61st home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60, which has endured since 1927. He won't know whether to cheer or to shoot himself, and as he alternately chokes on and cries in his beer, he will curse the nouveau riche who made things...
...Washington. There are six new managers in the two leagues, and the Chicago Cubs are trying to get along with no manager at all. In the longest season ever (each American League team will play 162 instead of the traditional 154 games), almost every record will be within reach. Babe Ruth's 60 home runs, Outfielder Jim Lemon's 138 strikeouts, all the endless statistics of other summers will be under attack...
Even though Mirsky's taste leaves much to be desired, there were a few performances and a few moments during the play that hinted at Mirsky's potentially great talent. Henry Munn as Face was articulate and at moments very funny; in minor roles Thomas Babe and Thomas Segall overplayed what could have been a very good thing. Laurie Gould as Doll Common was sexy. If the slow pace and heaviness of the production had not dulled one's senses, several of the scenes might well have been riotous...