Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Cyd Charisse in MGM's 1952 spoof of Hollywood moviemaking, Singin' in the Rain...
...telephones an acquaintance to offer her a subscription to a pulp magazine, and when she speaks the listener mocks her smallness yet nearly weeps that a Southern Lady should rejoice so at finally making the sale. There is another extraordinary scene later, when Amanda tries to entertain Jim O'Connor, the "gentleman-caller," and her empty Southern sweetness is revealed. Miss Field avoids a caricature and keeps just enough of the Old South in her reading to show Amanda's desperateness...
...praise Miss Field I am ignoring the fine performances of the rest of the company. Eunice Brandon, as Laura, handles her long scene with Jim O'Connor especially effectively. Her shyness slowly disappears, then returns as she makes the one human contact of her life and loses it. I wish only that she were a bit shier at the beginning of the play so that the transition to the scene with Jim would seem less abrupt...
...Catholic rest home, Saint Vincent's Smiling Valley. Such plot as / Was Dancing has is concerned with Daniel's infinitely crafty efforts to discourage his son and to remain on in the house as a nonpaying guest. But Novelist O'Connor is less interested in plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped as Mrs. O'Leary's cow-Father McGovern, an octogenarian priest who rejoices fiercely every time a parishioner precedes him to the grave; Al Gottlieb, a Jewish businessman who prattles...
Novelist O'Connor, who wrote Dancing first as a play (it will be produced on Broadway in the fall), trots his characters on and off like the headliners in a vaudeville act. For the most part, Fred Allen did it better...