Word: charlton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tumbler (by Benn W. Levy) was the sixth Broadway production to open in February and close within a week. A harrowingly pretentious verse drama, The Tumbler was the deadliest of the six, while also providing the most newsworthy casualties: Director Laurence Olivier, Actors Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris and Martha Scott, and a playwright who once wrote Springtime for Henry...
...Tumbler, a verse play by Benn W. Levy, is directed by Sir Laurence Olivier. Farmer Charlton Heston meets Rosemary Harris in a barn. After they make love at first sight, she learns that he is her stepfather and the possible murderer of her father. As the mystery plays out, wrote the Boston Globe critic, "Levy's verse-speech sometimes glows with beauty, often is shrouded in mists of obscurity . . . But his play has power...