Word: belcredi
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Only Richard Mayer as the doctor and Edward Golden, playing Belcredi, fall below the general high level of acting. Mayer seemed confused about the proper way to portray a fumbling, pompous psychiatrist and decided to mouth his words and wave his hands--the wrong choice for any role. Golden, to the contrary, had two perfectly adequate portrayals at his command. Unable to decide between them, he used both, thus destroying the merits of each. Had he stuck to his first inclination to show Belcredi as a serious man working hard at a studied foppery he would have succeeded admirably...