Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey...
With his swooping fancies and suave violence, Bemelmans at his best does not so much abandon reality as transcend it. But what Bemelmans can evoke in a paragraph, Adapter Ryan scarcely suggests in a whole production number. As gaudy extravaganza, the show is sometimes fair fun, and Fredric March and Florence Eldridge squeeze some good burlesque moments out of their roles. But there is not much human warmth to the laughter, and there are none of the suddenly touching moments there should be. Miss Ryan's orchestration all but drowns out Mr. Bemelmans' music...
...distinguished mainly by its sensitive photography. A group of young film craftsmen-Producer Robert Snyder, Director Richard Lyford, Writer Norman Borisoff-took it apart and put it together again. Their new script uses a tighter story continuity, thumbnail art critiques, a telling musical score and a narration spoken by Fredric March...