Word: brandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production helps considerably. Harold Clurman's staging is lively, yet never sacrifices tone to trickiness. As Berenice, Ethel Waters plays with sure and simple dignity; as John Henry, seven-year-old Brandon De Wilde is thoroughly captivating. In the much more difficult role of Frankie, Julie Harris is very effective up to a point. Yet she is never really moving, never conveys something inward that cannot be put into words...