Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desire) Kazan, the picture makes good use of its actual German backgrounds and its bizarre circus setting. But the characters are mostly sawdust figures in a stock movie melodrama. Fredric March, as the circus manager and clown tightrope-walker, gives an earnest performance that seems to recall a little too strongly his confused Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Terry Moore as his bareback-riding daughter and Cameron Mitchell as a circus handyman in love with her are merely displaced Hollywood juveniles. Gloria Grahame as the circus manager's sultry young wife and Adolphe Menjou as a secret...
...Went to Your Wedding (Spike Jones; Victor). Spike lowers the boom on this one, and about time, with an outrageous vocal by "Sir Fredric Gas." Fun for a while...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Second Threshold, with Fredric March, Dorothy McGuire...
...Philip's best-known projects is the Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947), where Manhattan Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and a staff of 25 give psychiatric help, at 25? a session, to anyone, black or white. The clinic began in 1946 as a collaboration between Father Bishop, Psychiatrist Wertham and Negro Author Richard (Native Son) Wright. Nowadays, an average of 60 people a week come to the clinic for help...
...film's worst drawbacks: Fredric March in the key role. Trying to convey Willy's shambling desperation, March never shakes off the appearance of an actor calculatedly playing a part; sometimes, in slurred speech and maudlin gestures, his calculation is so wide of the mark that fie seems to be trying to play a drunk...