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...Havoc as Joanne deLynn, a slick showgirl type over-the-hill, ponders the morality of an affair with a younger man, finally deciding morality is not a pertinent question. Completely unrelated to this, Ruth Arnold (Julie Harris) is fighting her battle, or laying her trap, for handsome Jack Williams (Farley Granger), whose intentions are less than honorable...
Ruth White's portrayal of the forgotten movie star is surprisingly unstereotyped. Indeed, the acting always succeeds in rising above the quality of the script. June Havoc flounces about the stage as a superb specimen of moral laxity, and Farley Granger portrays the indecisive gigolo with equal skill. Julie Harris's engaging performance proves her to be a masterful stage veteran...
...BILL FARLEY...
...plot is still basic Austen. The aristocratic Mr. Darcy (Farley Granger) falls in love with Elizabeth (Polly Bergen), one of the five Bennet sisters. She dislikes his arrogance as sincerely as he dislikes her middleclass, mercenary mother. It is a classic case of love at first slight. As Darcy, Hollywood's Farley Granger is the stuff telephone poles are made of. TV's Polly Bergen makes a winning Elizabeth, but the ex-Pepsi Cola Girl seems to be selling her part rather than playing it. As Mrs. Bennet, the huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls...
...already reached formidable proportions. Almost all the eminent participants in the hectic events of the Thirties have brought out their glistening personal axes and ground them or had them ground for the greater benefit of posterity. Frances Perkins, Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, Rex Tugwell, James Farley, Cordell Hull, Raymond Moley, Harry Hopkins, and, of course, Eleanor Roosevelt have had their days in power but all of them now are pretty well sidelined...