Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen, this unpretentious yarn has been given standard Hollywood treatment, i.e., the daydreamer is now an heiress and her moderately subtle character is interpreted, with full brass, by rambunctious Betty Hutton. Playing her bookish boy friend, Macdonald Carey behaves more like the president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop...
Saroyan's Heir. But there were some pretty substantial new plays, true though it was that many of them (Mister Roberts, Command Decision, The Heiress) had previously been books. And there was, at last, what almost everybody regarded as a substantial young playwright: Tennessee Williams, whose Streetcar Named Desire won both the Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize-a feat achieved only once before, by William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...
...There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts. "It's really much better when you see it," commented a woman televiewer. Television and Broadway agreed, hoped that this week's try (at The Heiress) would be better...