Word: browned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting is a cheap tenement in New York. Helen Brown (of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Rhumba Queen of 1947) is being thrown out of her room because hse has no money. Her landlady hints that her reputation is not without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...
...Kanin has been very fortunate in the actors he has obtained for the roles of Helen Brown and Gus Hammer, the saxophone player. Betty Field has the part of the embittered young "model," as she calls herself, and she is wonderful in the part. Miss Field is unexcelled in the business of naturalistic acting and no matter how tough she talks she is still the substance of feminity. Barry Nelson as Gus Hammer, is also very good, with his half-articulate gestures, his rocking stance, and his fresh enthusiasm...