Word: heckart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dark at the Top of the Stairs, by William (Bus Stop) Inge, is both poignant and funny as it reveals the secret fears of a small-town family in the 1920s; with Teresa Wright, Pat Hingle and Eileen Heckart...
...speckled traveling salesman (Pat Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly recognizable, so comfortably life-sized and so frequently good for a laugh that, regardless of bank balances or growing pains or matrimonial bumps, things somehow look rather cozy...
Teresa Wright does as much with the role of Cora as nearly anyone could. Pat Hingle acts Rubin as solidly as he did Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Eileen Heckart, as Lottie, impresses many people as magnificent--a loosely jointed, many-toned caricature actress a la Roz Russel. She is often most amusing, often overdone. As a friend of Reenie's, Evans Evans is wacky, flappery, and fun, except in her emotional scene, where she seems hollow...
...rather be "some place down the ladder where he can use his energies naturally-not be afraid all the time-be himself." Despite an occasionally listless script ("Oh dear, I can't stand the sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some of TV's toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups and split-second scene switching from one effective set to another...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). No License to Kill, with Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart and blinded Columnist Victor Riesel as narrator...