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...offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
...movie concentrates so relentlessly on Pinky's personal anguish that it achieves a haunting character portrait. Acting the role with an un-greasepainted face, Jeanne Grain seems like a morbid, almost marbleized Sleeping Beauty, bewitched by her conflict. Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan underlines the impression by having her walk with a dreamy gait, usually against the wind. As Pinky's washerwoman grandmother, Ethel Waters gives a powerful performance...
...both cases, adjectives a size or two smaller might have proved a far better fit; or a distinction should have been made between the production and the show. For even more dazzling phenomena than Salesman and South Pacific themselves were the men who staged them: Elia Kazan and Joshua Logan. Director Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...
...best plays. She does not speak to The Little Foxes' Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and Playwright Lillian Hellman (both leftists whose rows with Tallulah were political as well as professional). She does not speak to The Skin of Our Teeth's Producer Michael Myerberg and Director Elia Kazan. Shumlin will not even discuss her. Billy Rose, who starred her in Clifford Odets' Clash By Night, is more reticent about Tallulah than he is on most topics. During that play, in which Tallulah carried on several concurrent vendettas, she referred to Rose as "a loathsome little bully...