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...Hal Prince has answered this question--in detail--but in so doing he has raised another one: why on earth would anyone want to be a producer? The producer has to do all the dirty work. He has to bargain with powerful unions and soothe touchy artistic temperaments. He has to put his foot down and say no a lot, and everybody ends up hating him. He gets most of the blame and little of the credit--at least from the general public--and worst of all, he always has to worry about money...
...Winthrop House and Boston; Marvin B. Lieberman of Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Richard H. Millington of Winthrop House and Bar Harbor, Me.; Raymond T. Pierrehumbert of Dunster House and Passaic, N.J.; Jeffrey D. Sachs of Adams House and Detroit, Mich.; Alan D. Sokal of North House and Boston; Hal F. Starnes Jr. of Dunster House and Asheville, N.C.; Cass R. Sunstein of Currier House and Salem; Eric H. Wachtel of Adams House and New York City; Douglas H. Wilkins of Dunster House and Boston...
...living is more than having harmless drunken fun--they're selfish and cruel and irresponsible throughout. This is a thirties high society movie that you just can't pardon. It isn't even very witty. With Billie Burke, the Good Witch in Oz, as Youngs's puritanical wife. Hal Roach produced this in 1937; directed by Norman Macleod...
...believed to make up with their innocent high spirits what they lack in common sense and stability. In this case, the gamine is played by the ubiquitous Goldie Hawn. The author, whom convention dictates must reluctantly fall for her despite bouts of reformist palaver and exasperation, is played by Hal Holbrook...
...wife (Sada Thompson) far gone in status panic-running up huge bills, insulting society ladies, publicly accusing her husband of infidelity, even being investigated for disloyalty by a congressional committee. Lincoln's nobility in the face of this passeth all understanding, despite a canny, understated performance by Hal Holbrook...