Word: heckart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other matters, however, Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script. Actors march on and off the screen just as if they were making stage entrances and exits. Eileen Heckart, as the bereft mother of Patty's schoolmate, sobs through two long hysterical scenes that may have been effective theater but are merely repetitious film. And, as the horrors and corpses mount up (Patty is planning a fourth murder when the thunderbolt gets her), what had been eerie becomes ludicrous. At the film's end, LeRoy makes his final obeisance to the stage: all the characters...
...satisfying. Actress Monroe, robbed of her usual glamour by bleached makeup and unmoistened lips, still generates enough sex to console the nation's Venus-worshipers, and her comedy turns stand up well against the broad playing of Don Murray and the smooth professionalism of Betty Field and Eileen Heckart...
...still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does, and his occasional tenderness with wife Pier Angeli or his racked mother (Eileen Heckart) is as compelling as his berserk rage against strangers...
...drama front, Eileen Heckart achieved a considerable tour de force on Philco TV Playhouse as a servant who chooses her employer's family over her own mother. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour captured much of (the bestselling novel's fun in an adaptation of Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants; Andy Griffith was convincing as the Georgia rookie with two left feet and an unconquerable spirit. Probably the week's most convincing drama was found on another pair of ABC shows. Pond's Theater proved again that Britain's late great John...
Ralph Meeker, Paul Newman, Peggy Conklin, Eileen Heckart all seem like real people. Janice Rule as the young lady is indeed both beautiful and confused. Only Kim Stanley, as her younger sister, is a bit unbelievable--she is too often too bold in telegraphing her moods...