Word: granger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kraft Theater: Farley Granger was chasing Julie Wilson around the dress racks, but it was almost too dark for him to see her. "I must kill you," he snarled, a 2-ft. flashlight swinging ominously from his hand. "And all the bells in hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance...
Playhouse 90: Farley Granger appears to try twice as hard as most young actors, but the end product is often not good enough by half. Last week The Clouded Image doubled the odds by casting him as a pair of English twins named Peter and Gerald. Peter inherited the family estate because Gerald, his elder by half an hour, had disappeared at the age of 13 and was declared legally dead. Suddenly Granger as Peter was confronted by Granger as Gerald. But was Gerald genuine? Peter thought not, and for good reason: he had killed little Gerald by shoving...
...sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
...desert island it is possible for a man to be "civilized"-i.e., share the wealth, even when his only asset is a wife. In the play the heroine made the merry most of her polyandrous predicament, but poor Ava gets less bed than bored. Her husband (Stewart Granger) is interested in other things, and her would-be-wooer (David Niven) appears too vague to know what he wants. The only other man on the island is (or seems to be) a savage who can say nothing but "Boola!" In fact, the most interesting thing anybody can find...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Bottle Imp, with Farley Granger, and Geoffrey Holder, a calypso singer and dancer, in a bizarre tale of voodoo...