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Word: dunnock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, plans for the selection of the three plays are also in the formative stage. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Arthur Kennedy, Judith Anderson, Mildred Dunnock, John Kerr, Siobban McKenna, and Richard Burton have expressed interest in the series. However, all arrangements are presently liquid, and no final committments will be made for several weeks...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Permanent Sanders Theatre Set Planned | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

...Times' article also implied that the first of the three productions would star Burgess Meredith in "Hamlet" and that Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock would act "King John" in the second bill, if they were available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Times' Charged With Distortion Of Theatre Festival's Intentions | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

Kraft TV Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Thornton Wilder's The Happy Journey, with Frank McHugh, Mildred Dunnock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 1, 1954 | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Hide and Seek, with Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...fatal accident offstage) and point (life must progress from fakery to reality) are the feeblest parts of her drama. But she wins high marks for theatricality and comic invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director José Quintero has caught some memorable vignettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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