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Facing the prospect of directing his first American superstar, Barbra Streisand, in a film biography of Sarah Bernhardt, Russell says he finds all his movies equally nerve racking: "There is really no difference between nuns with no clothes on and tap dancers in goggles. It is all material...
...over 3,000 items in bibliography. To which now can be added this slender volume of eleven essays of French, English and American Proustians collected by English Biographer and Critic Peter Quennell. The book is splendidly illustrated with a variety of period images ranging from lady bicyclists to Sarah Bernhardt reclining amid pillows, fringes and a polar bear...
...LOCAL production of Marigolds, on the basis of its final preview Monday night, more than lives up to the play and is usually the equal of the original off-Broadway version I saw a year ago. The New York director, Melvin Bernhardt, has repeated his staging chores here, and he has done nicely at adapting his work to the special demands of this new cast...
...Bernhardt is, of course, more than fortunate to have Eileen Heckart working for him in the role of Beatrice. Miss Heckart is one of this country's finest and most often wasted actresses, and this is one of the few occasions I have seen her in a part worthy of her talents. Her gawky physique and nasal delivery are perfect means for presenting the character's uneasy balance of self-assurance and paranoia. When, in the second act, one of the daughters forces her mother to confront her own horrible past. Miss Heckart reveals Beatrice's long repressed wounds with...
...should comment in conclusion on Melvin Bernhardt's direction and Fred Voelpel's scenery. The pacing of the action has its own exemplary sparkle. The director's hand must be seen in the successful assertion of comic over melodramatic prerogatives in this production. The set is functional and attractive...