Word: druten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). John Van Druten's The Princess Back Home, with Celeste Holm as an authoress in search of love (color...
...Hecht, Hill & Lancaster next year, when onetime Scriptwriter James Hill joins the partnership). Projected films include The Way West, from A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with Sir Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift and Lancaster; and Bandoola, to be filmed in Ceylon with Sophia Loren...
...Harrison reputation was growing among professionals. When he and Lilli co-starred in an airy drawing-room spoof called Bell, Book and Candle, Author John Van Druten, who also directed, declared flatly: "I think he is probably the most brilliant actor I've ever worked with. He is fantastically meticulous. He will pause to think out every suggestion, and then try it over and over again until he's satisfied. He will even try out whether to put his weight on his toes, heels, or on the ball of his foot when he is turning and delivering...
Julie Harris is an absolute goodbye to all that. As Playwright John van Druten puts it: "Onstage she is a flame, but as she leaves it she turns into a wisp of smoke." Not since Maude Adams has a famous actress cherished such a private private life. She and her husband. Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum. They seldom go out, seldom entertain. Julie does the housework when she doesn't have a play, and takes care of the baby...
...Distributors Corp. of America, producers of the film version of I Am a Camera, John Van Druten's 1951 stage play about a frankly promiscuous girl, was holding its pocketbook and its breath, waiting for a seal of approval from Hollywood's Production Code Administration. Filmed in England, the picture stars Julie Harris, who is called upon to utter such lines as "I might not be exactly what some people consider a virgin . . . but I've been chaste-chased by every man," and "What shall we do first-have a drink or go to bed?" Said...