Word: druten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amazingly enough, the movie manages to retain most of the playful charm of a weekend love affair that earned the stage version a five-year run. For this feat, author John Van Druten, who was on hand in Hollywood, is presumably responsible...
...this exchange of tattle for titillation were the whole truth, only half the battle need be lost; for Playwright John van Druten's soldier is an engaging character and his girl is rather an original one. But since these characters have been deprived of their chief motives, their honesty, and their essential innocence, they are also deprived of most of their reality and all their charm...
Playwright Van Druten, who wrote the movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find...
...first appears-all the difference between the stuff of satire and the stuff of drama. With fluttering spinsters and tea-table gossip constantly cutting in on the professor's story, The Druid Circle seems too intense at moments, yet not intense enough as a whole. Playwright van Druten, who as a young man taught for a time at the sort of college he portrays, has perhaps put his imagination in bondage to his memories...
...John van Druten had his first stage success (Young Woodley, 1925) when he was 24. Since then, he has rarely been without a hit-if not in London, then in New York. His biggest: There's Always Juliet (1931), Old Acquaintance (1940), and The Voice of the Turtle...