Word: emlyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such films as Holiday, The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, they set the standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental drama. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a no-nonsense English schoolteacher who arrives in a poor Welsh town to educate young coal miners. Right away she finds a gifted pupil, Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), whom she puts into strenuous training to compete for an Oxford scholarship...
...Emlyn Williams's one-man show, Dylan Thomas Growing Up, similarly impresses me as a collection of voices--all creations of Williams's own hypnotic baritone. In contrast to The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris's recent tour-de-force portrayal of Emily Dickinson, Williams has steered away from constructing a coherent dramatic whole, embracing a well-developed set of invisible characters, a climax and a denouement. Instead, he uses only a loose chronological organization, modeling his entertainment after Thomas's own prose, with its fluid structure and its lack of a clear beginning, middle...
Dylan Thomas Growing Up. In Cambridge at the Loeb Drama Center. Emlyn Williams' highly praised show will be presented Jan. 12-16. Call 864-2630 for ticket info...
Cast as an indomitable spinster teacher in the pre-World War I South, indomitable Bette Davis was hard at rehearsals last week for Miss Moffat, her first stage role in 13 years. The Broadway-bound production, which opens in Baltimore next month, is a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, in which Davis first starred for Warner Bros, back in 1945. "I'm delighted to have an opportunity to play the character again because now I look the right age," says Davis, 66, who has been working steadily through lunch and cigarette breaks...
With this one-man show, Jack Aranson has joined a select and illuminating company, that of John Gielgud in Ages of Man, Siobhan McKenna in Here Are Ladies, Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens and Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight . Moby Dick is the most formidable task...