Word: cotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Axelrod's staging is lively, and Arlene Francis is high-spirited as the wife. Joseph Cotten's playing of the conductor is off key, but then the conductor himself seems outlandish...
...brothers snarl their dislike of each other, but for propriety's sake, Gotten agrees to let Van stick around in disguise until the river subsides. But now the emotional tides begin rising. Cotten's wife (Ruth Roman), who has been moping because she can't have a baby, and therefore-by Hollywood logic-is losing her husband to the light señoritas across the border, begins to get curious about Van. So do the fast-living neighbors. All this prying, and Cotten's refusal to send money to Van's family, make Van unreasonable...
...established entertainment choices along Shubert Alley is Samuel Taylor's "Sabrina Fair." Margaret Sullavan has a chance to skitter about the stage while Joseph cotten scutters after her. the problem, something about a chauffeur's daughter with Parisian ideas, is amusingly worked out at the National...
Despite Actress Sullavan's adroitness and Joseph Cotten's ease, the romance seems pretty thin-spun and forced. As is so often true in drawing-room comedy, the secondary characters are the most fun. Mr. Cotten's Tory father (delightfully played by John Cromwell) seems a wittier cousin of the late George Apley, while Cathleen Nesbitt, as a great lady who purrs, and Luella Gear, as a career woman who drips acid, also add to the brightness...
Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Joseph Cotten and Margaret Phillips in The Dusty Drawer...