Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Broderick (All the King's Men) Crawford got a double dose of publicity in the New York Herald Tribune. The news column reported that Crawford "would rather bruise 'em than love 'em on the screen . . . Most people seem to favor my rough treatment of heroines." On the opposite page, the Trib reported that
Miss Holliday is most of "Born Yesterday," but there are other important parts. Harry Brock, the junk tycoon, is played by Broderick Crawford; William Holden plays Paul Verrall, a crusading reporter. Both give good, straightforward performances, and get author Kanin's ideas across well. Crawford's Harry Brock is not quite up to what Paul Douglas achieved on the stage, however. Crawford plays the junkman as a surly oaf and a menace--both of which he is, of course. But the part is a comic one as well, and Mr. Crawford hasn't done much to earn laughs. After...
...Rose Tattoo (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is laid, like most Tennessee Williams plays, in the South-in a village on the Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...
...talking about Claudia Cassidy, the Chicago Tribune's triple-threat (drama-music-ballet) critic, who had just given Keane and the road show a mild clawing. Said Actor Keane: she ought to get married. When someone said that Critic Cassidy is married already (to ex-Stockbroker William Crawford), Keane snapped: "Well, then, why not have her divorced and get her married to Westbrook Pegler...
...there, and accessible to the Philadelphia labor market. Reason for the new building: no available plant is strong enough to support the overhead cranes as they swing the heavy tanks down the assembly line. Nevertheless, new plant and all, Chrysler expects to be producing tanks by fall. Said General Crawford: "This is the most difficult problem ever given private industry...