Word: coburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Certainly "The Wife Hunter" is far more applicable to a Broadway bedroom farce than to a gentle comedy of southern England. Even the old title, "The Farmer's Wife", though a trifle misleading, is better than the one finally selected, which induces a most unwarranted preconception of Mr. Charles Coburn in the role of a dashing and sophisticated Lothario...
Actually, Mr. Coburn is anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...Farmer's Wife" at the Wilbur. Eden Phillpotts' delightful comery with Mr. and Mrs. Coburn...
...FARMER'S WIFE-Mr. and Mrs. Coburn genially setting forth the tribulations of a hearty widower who sets out to win a wife...
...FARMER'S WIFE?Mr. and Mrs Coburn in a robustly amusing comedy of rural England by Eden Phillpotts. Whom should a widower marry...