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When Joan Greenwood opened on Broadway in The Confidential Clerk most critics were so anxious to unravel the play's meanings that they relegated Miss Greenwood to their 20th paragraphs. Shortly afterward, Audrey Hepburn came to town in a less murky production and had every reviewer reduced to ardent grovelings. It never seemed quite fair...
...days--three years ago--the situation was reversed. Joan Greenwood starred in Young Wives' Tale and she managed to make Miss Hepburn's brief role in the film seem even more negligible than it was. The picture deals with the problems of two young couples and their children sharing a house. Thrown in also is a perplexed nanny, baffled by the interchangeable embraces the spies between the various mates. Miss Hepburn is on hand as a man-hungry secretary who considers any male civility a proposition...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Joan Greenwood in The King and Mrs. Candle...
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...Joan Greenwood, a young woman who is always delightful in both voice and appearance, makes Lucasta the most appealing character in the play, and possibly the only human being. In the opening of the second act, the best part of the play from a purely dramatic point of view, she tells Simpkins of her self-hatred and search for security. In Simpkins, she finds the first person who sees her as she wants to be. Whether or not you take Simpkins as Christ, the process of self understanding through rapport with another being is highly emotional and dramatic...