Word: edgerton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kresge, has the proper dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they do not capitalize on the grotesque idiosyncrasies that Thomas outlined for them in the published script, and seem as a result almost interchangeable. The rest of the cast ranges from adequate to awful...
...Edgerton, in short, is fighting against fearful odds, with the intermittent assistance of Miss Ryder. He has a good time doing it, and this spectacle may be worth the price of admission...
...Agassiz, there is a man named Earle Edgerton acting in a play called The Moon is Blue. You ought...
...this instance, humor is very nearly the exclusive province of the aforementioned Mr. Edgerton, who plays the roue. Granted, the role is not a very taxing one, but Edgerton delivers all there is in it. The quality which lifts him so far above his colleagues is timing. He is an actor of some experience, and realizes that the funniest line can be ruined with poor timing--an axiom which the others demonstrate from time to time...
...must be said in her favor that she got better as she went along, except for a sag in the last scene. But like Edgerton's, her part has a great deal of fun in it; not enough came across. When she was alone on the stage with Kulukundis, there were times when only the happy few who had seen the play elsewhere could have suspected that the lines were supposed to be funny...