Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Fourposter, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy...
...Honeys (by Roald Dahl) tells of despotic, irascible twin brothers (both played by Hume Cronyn) married to pleasant, long-suffering wives. It then tells how the wives (Jessica Tandy and Dorothy Stickney) decide that it would greatly improve matters if they disposed of their husbands. Disposing of them requires a stalled elevator, tainted oyster juice, a skull-bopping with a frozen leg of lamb, and a medicinal drink containing tiger's whiskers; but the ladies are very happily widowed...
...Hume Cronyn has a busy night. He plays the double role of gruff, vain Bennett Honey, who sprinkles false dandruff on his toupee, and his boorish brother Curtis, who decorates his living room with animal heads. (The living room, incidentally, is wonderfully bizarre: Ben Edwards' other setting is too.) Cronyn grumbles his way admirably through both parts, and manages to make the Honeys just similar enough to be twins but different enough to be two people...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Victor Borge, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn...
Were any of the sustaining summer shows good enough to carry on into the fall as sponsored programs? The trade magazine Tide asked the question of more than 3,000 industry executives, found three shows in front by a wide margin: The Marriage, starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Adventure; and Shakespeare on TV, featuring Southern California's Professor Frank C. Baxter...