Word: fadeouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need bow to no theatre anywhere on the matter of a stage itself. The "modified Elizabethan" set that Robert O'Hearn had designed in Sanders has classic beauty. Its four distinct staging levels and its simple lines provide infinitely various opportunities for blocking, for lighting effects, and for wonderful fadeout exits. And O'Hearn has not only made the set beautiful and functional; he has also blended it in perfectly as an integral part of Sanders Theatre. It will really be a shame to see the thing dismantled in the fall...
Ibsen's Nora. Taunted by a nasty-minded teen-age neighbor, young Tony takes his horrified peek at the lovers and tells his father all. Jeff does a fadeout, and Oliver almost pies his type in fury ("What kind of a woman are you?"). Lucy, who has been rather foggy about her identity, apparently thinks that she is Ibsen's Nora: "Up to now you've treated me ... as though I'm still twenty, to be cuddled, protected, patronized. Finally, in any important matter, disregarded . . . So-now-I no longer accept...
...protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever taped, there is room to wonder if justice was really done...
When she finally cuddles, beneath the covers, the camera moves in for a gulping closeup. Nancy murmurs "good night" but makes it sound like an invitation marked R.S.V.P. Her eyes close, her lips part gently and she drifts off to slumberland to fadeout music and a cartoon of fence-jumping sheep...
...this horseplay, Raleigh boldly kicks up his heels. For this the Queen could hand Sir Walter his head, but by this time she is so encumbered with other worries that she just gives him a ship and his lady and tells them to get the hell out of town. Fadeout: Raleigh, his arm around Beth, sets sail for America to get his face on a million tobacco cans; back at the palace Queen Elizabeth, old and dejected carries...