Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groomed for Broadway in 1939 but closed out of town. Last week it became the first play offered by the Phoenix Theater, a professional, well-heeled repertory group that, to avoid Broadway costs, will produce on lower Second Avenue. The stars this time are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn...
...match for the youthful hoofer. Picking up after a slow start, the play has enough bright remarks and gay incidents, enough humor, novelty and point of view for a refreshingly pleasant evening. This is true despite the fact that-though Actress Tandy makes a winning Mary Doyle-Actor Cronyn lacks the regrettable charm and dash of the Devil...
...Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...
...Marriage (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC) Starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy...
...critical curses of "static" and "trite"--is author Jan de Hartog's plausibly witty dialogue and believably gradual development of character. He has made things easier for his audience by casting his male lead in the part of an author of best selling if not memorable novels. Thus Mr. Cronyn can be humorously sarcastic without imposing on the audience's credulity; his lines are what one might expect from a clever, superficial writer. As his wife, Miss Tandy progresses from a blushing but eager bride to a mature woman without any false crises. Rather her growth can be seen...