Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway's newest Lear is a good deal more painstaking than vibrant. But its newest Lear is not only far better than any other that Broadway has seen for a generation; it definitely indicates, even though it does not definitively prove, that the part can be acted. Tall, commanding Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel, The Magnificent Yankee) conveys what the faithful Kent saw in Lear's countenance-authority.* Calhern also has a perfect sense of the vain, imperious whitebeard, the appalled father, the outraged king. And Calhern's Lear is often touching as well as grand...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty examination of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders (TIME...
...Great Dissenter" (well played, as on Broadway, by Louis Calhern-see THEATER) emerges a gruff but amiable gaffer, quietly and steadily outsmarted by a devoted wife (Ann Harding), whom he showers with courtly attentions. He loves his country, his profession, the smell of spring and (deep down) the Harvard Law School honor graduates who come each year to serve as his secretaries and "sons...
...Magnificent Yankee (MGM) is an affectionate salute to the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court, but not a very impressive one. Patterning the movie after his own 1946 Broadway play, Scripter Emmet Lavery sentimentalizes Holmes's life in Washington in the years between T.R. and F.D.R...
...Broadway to the Alps. The search for the River is not the first trip on the Amazon for Author Ullman, a rangy, weatherbeaten New Yorker who has put in his share of time among high mountains and in far-off jungles. A onetime Broadway producer (Pulitzer Prize-winning Men in White), he left Manhattan in 1936, after a series of flops, and headed straight for South America. Afterwards he wrote a fresh, lively account of his adventures in The Other Side of the Mountain...