Word: cast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting cast, headed by Francois Perier as the shiftless husband and Suzy Delair as Gervaise's scheming enemy, is impeccable, and M. Clement's direction achieves its effects brilliantly. In term of motion picture artistry. Gervaise constitutes a nearly perfect effort (although the Brattle's projection technique leaves something to be desired.) Clement's slight humorous touches (which are almost forgotten in the depression of the climax) are masterstrokes: a beggar quietly switching his sign from "Aveugle" to "Sourd et Buet," the ridiculously bad singing of a guest at Gervaise's birthday party...
...Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry) is the first play by a Negro woman playwright ever to reach Broadway. It is also the first Broadway play in decades directed by a Negro (Lloyd Richards), and all but one member of its cast are Negroes. All this would be the small talk of theatrical statistics if Raisin in the Sun were not a work of genuine dramatic merit. Playwright Hansberry, 28, has brought to her well-crafted play the gifts of intelligence, honesty and humor, a saving absence of racial partisanship, and a moving ability to use the language...
...tried three times but I can't finish it," said Actress Maureen Stapleton. But Director John Frankenheimer was adamant. Before they started rehearsals for Playhouse 90's ambitious, two-part production of For Whom the Bell Tolls, every member of the cast had to read Ernest Hemingway's 472-page novel about the Spanish Civil War. Frankenheimer's request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud...
Playhouse 90's disappointing failure was doubled by its tremendous effort. The frenzied direction of young (29) John Frankenheimer pushed the entire cast to the edges of endurance, while CBS shuddered and costs rose to nearly $500,000. For four weeks of rehearsals and ten days of taping, Frankenheimer sandwiched his work in between his cast's commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune...
...bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...