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Much of Elia Kazan's staging adds force and vividness, and so does much of the acting-particularly Burl Ives as the doomed father and Barbara Bel Geddes as the desperate wife, insecure as a cat on a hot tin roof...
...Murrow's Person to Person reached to California to show how the other half of 1% of the population lives-in a visit to Hotelman Conrad Hilton's 61-room Bel-Air home. Hilton led the cameras through endless hallways, lounges, state dining rooms, silver vaults and patios-all of them bearing a startling resemblance to Statler lobbies. It was almost a relief, in the second part of. the program, to visit the 4½-room Manhattan apartment of Red Buttons, who did a serviceable imitation of Hilton by patting his wall and confiding that it was made...
...much batters its theme before the suicide, and again for a whole scene after it. Nor is the production very helpful. Walter Fitzgerald and Michael Goodliffe are good as the priest and the psychologist, but Greene's cold overwroughtness is played up rather than down; and Barbara Bel Geddes. though a charming actress, lacks the right inner simplicity and bewilderment for the heroine...
...presenting the clash between psychologist and priest, one of the author's favorite themes, The Living Room makes use of both dialogue and symbolic plot. Barbara Bel Geddes, as Rose Pemberton, plays a young Catholic caught between the demands of her faith and her desire to remain the mistress of a middle-aged psychologist. Attempting to influence her decision are, quite naturally, the psychologist (Michael Goodliffe) and the priest (Walter Fitzgerald...
...Miss Bel Geddes' supply of tears is not unlimited, but she does as well as could be expected under the circumstances. For the most part she is the innocent and unaffected girl which Greene intended. Walter Fitzgerald manages to make the priest a sympathetic blend of the wise and ineffectual, and if he seems more deft at both than psychologist Michael Goodliffe, it is probably because Greene has given him the better arguments...