Word: cronyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors involved in this production are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, man and wife on and off the stage, and it is largely through their work that this play achieves its effectiveness. For them, the author, Jan de Hertog, has fashioned an amusing vehicle that wanders aimlessly through the years, catching the couple on their wedding night and following them to what appears to be old age, 35 years later...
These are ordinary occasions, and yet they are so cleverly handled that the audience is continually chuckling. It is a heavy burden for only two people, but it is doubtful that two more capable actors could be found. Miss Tandy and Mr. Cronyn take turns playing straight man, but at all times they seem perfectly natural. Their timing is excellent and whether it is a sharp retort of a raised eyebrow, the action is delivered with maximum effectiveness...
Physician Grant is a doctor to warm any patient's heart. In his lecture courses at the university, he scandalizes such colleagues as dandruffy Hume Cronyn by suggesting that a sympathetic bedside manner is as important as the study of anatomy. A disciple of broad-gauged living, Grant also finds time to conduct the school orchestra, play with model trains and fall in love with Jeanne Grain, a young student whose antisocial acts and attitudes include unmarried pregnancy, attempted suicide, and a tendency to faint at the sight of a cadaver. For good measure, Grant's constant companion...
...collie or bearding a board of examiners, plays to perfection the man who refuses to worry about anyone's opinion but his own. In the difficult role of a girl who keeps falling in & out of love (and bed), Jeanne Grain displays both intelligence and charm. Hume Cronyn's crabbed and envious pedant is relieved by flashes of grade A academic humor, while Finlay Currie, who threw a chill into moviegoers as the convict in Great Expectations, manages to be very funny in his set piece explaining how he became a murderer...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Promise, with Gloria Swanson, Hume Cronyn, Margaret Phillips...