Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's citizenry, which had been brought up on an American diet of fairy princesses too, seemed to feel the same way about Elizabeth's 45-hour visit to the capital. The city viewed it as something like watching Helen Hayes play the young Victoria, but with a real President, real ambassadors, dozens of motorcycle cops and the Marine Band in the cast...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m.. CBS). Helen Hayes in The Lucky Touch...
Faithfully Yours (by L. Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV), another big-budget TV drama, concentrates on top Hollywood & Broadway names. So far, the star system has backfired: the talents of Helen Hayes and David Niven were wasted in a soggy romance called Not a Chance, while Cinemactor John Payne had only to tighten his jaw muscles menacingly as the Government agent in The Name Is Bellingham, a routine thriller about dope smugglers. But Bellingham was noteworthy for imaginative camerawork, some nice atmosphere touches, and the repeated scene-stealing of minor Actor Guy Thomajon as a devious Chinese businessman...
Secondly, would an account of the U.S.A as experienced by a foreign resident in this country in the years 1922-1934 be regarded as adequate or accurate evidence of the condition or the sentiments of American in 1951? Helen Maud...