Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philip Barry dialogue for living-room consumption, and to pick as heroine an actress so typed for guppylike roles as Dorothy McGuire, suggested in advance that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic but caustic dilemma of casting off a new fiance (Dick Foran) and remarrying the one and only (John Payne), she had an engaging cast...
Books, movies and the stage sometimes tell as much about the spiritual state of an era as the churches. Broadway's most notable failure this season was Roman Catholic Novelist Graham Greene's play, The Living Room (TIME, Nov. 29), in which an adulterous triangle destroys itself in the helpless presence of a paralyzed priest, against a background of bigoted neurosis. In London the play ran to packed houses for 38 weeks; in Manhattan it lasted just 21 performances. Last week the Roman Catholic weekly, Commonweal, registered a well-taken complaint...
...been fed such a diet of peace of mind and peace of soul, and been provided with so many guides to confident living, that we apparently can no longer grasp the meaning of spiritual anguish or pain in our drama . . . And so there will be no Living Rooms on Broadway; there will be only Solid Gold Cadillacs...
...Country Girl (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...
...camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead in a new play...