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Writing in 1939, Brecht set his drama against the backdrop of the 17th century Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics. In her cagey peasant way, Mother Courage (Anne Bancroft) is a petty war profiteer peddling brandy, belts and other boodle to the troops. Her only religion is her hand-drawn canteen cart and her three children. But just as Mother Courage is a coward, her children ironically symbolize the degradation and defeat of virtue in the world...
...noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
...Best Actress: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker), Lee Remick (Wine and Roses), Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth), Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey into Night), and Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). Davis has won twice before and is thus in a position to become the first person ever to do it a third time. She has been nominated a record ten times...
Besides Pulitzer Prizes for biographies of Columbus and John Paul Jones, Morison has also received the Bancroft Prize and several medals...
Seesaw has its ups and downs, among them MacLaine and Mitchum. On Broadway, Anne Bancroft opened her veins and transfused the audience with hot red gouts of life and laughter; in the film, MacLaine turns on her talent like a spigot, and out comes a cooler flow of charm and humor. On Broadway, Henry Fonda was a mirror skillfully held to reflect the heroine; in the film, Mitchum is just another blank wall in her cold-water flat. Still and all, in the passage from Broadway to Hollywood, not too much of the Gibson has been spilled...