Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though there were sound male performers in the cast (Steve Hill, Hume Cronyn), the TV play belonged to the women. As the perichole (half-breed bitch), Viveca Lindfors munched off the scenery with her "razor tongue" until the pox dulled her cutting edge and brought pathos to the role. Judith Anderson played the mad. fatuous marquesa in a style that would have fit nicely into a theater but came a little floridly into the living room. Yet both actresses gave the show its finest moment: a fateful mutual-humility act when the marquesa, in a weepy, alcoholic glow transferred...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). No License to Kill, with Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and blinded Columnist Victor Riesel as narrator...
Studio One (Mon.10p.m., CBS). The Five-Dollar Bill, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as sorely tried parents of a rebellious young...
...Phoenix Theater is in its third year as the most ambitious, most professional of the off-Broadway houses. While not rich, it has both means and know-how. Among its angels are Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lindsay & Grouse, Elia Kazan; among its actors have been Montgomery Clift, Nancy Walker, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Farley Granger, Maureen Stapleton; among its directors, John Houseman, Sidney Lumet, Tyrone Guthrie...
...present, plans for the selection of the three plays are also in the formative stage. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Arthur Kennedy, Judith Anderson, Mildred Dunnock, John Kerr, Siobban McKenna, and Richard Burton have expressed interest in the series. However, all arrangements are presently liquid, and no final committments will be made for several weeks...