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...past 25 years, many of them pedestrian one-reelers, some of higher quality. Graham's latest, The Hiding Place, which is being previewed in eleven cities this spring, is a totally new departure. A 145-minute color spectacular with two award-whining stars, Julie Harris and Eileen Heckart, it boasts 2,000 extras and a production cost of $1.7 million...
...play is not badly written, and an air of expectancy, abetted by expert performances, hovers over it. A girl (Regina Barf) and a boy (Kipp Osborne) out on their first date are lured to a musty mansion in a Boston suburb by a middle-aged man and wife (Eileen Heckart and Arthur Kennedy) who act as caretakers of the estate. There the girl is slyly coaxed into impersonating an invalid named Veronica in a dress of 1935 vintage...
...Katselas, has mounted the movie version with commendable restraint. Goldie Hawn, as the girl next door, has come a long way from her giddy role in Laugh-In; she is often genuinely touching. Edward Albert, the son of Actor Eddie Albert, is creditable as the blind boy, and Eileen Heckart is appropriately hateful as the mother, although she is unable to be convincing in her transformation. But then nobody could...
Bernhardt is, of course, more than fortunate to have Eileen Heckart working for him in the role of Beatrice. Miss Heckart is one of this country's finest and most often wasted actresses, and this is one of the few occasions I have seen her in a part worthy of her talents. Her gawky physique and nasal delivery are perfect means for presenting the character's uneasy balance of self-assurance and paranoia. When, in the second act, one of the daughters forces her mother to confront her own horrible past. Miss Heckart reveals Beatrice's long repressed wounds with...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. No one expects a new comic writer to be another Neil Simon or Jean Kerr. But one does expect him to be funny and to be himself. Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself. But Eileen Heckart, playing the mother of a blind young man who seeks independence by moving into his own apartment, delivers her lines almost as if Gershe had delivered the goods...