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Good grief. Won't professors object to being chopped up and fed to their students? HELEN ELIZABETH BEATTIE Brooklyn...
Longstreet married Helen Dortch in 1897, when he was 76 and she was 34. They met at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., where she was a classmate of his daughter's. The General died in 1904, and his widow survived him by 58 years...
...United Artists) was. on Broadway, essentially a set piece for two actresses whose dialogue was a matter of touch, since one was playing a deaf, blind, mute child. It was less play than performance, done night after night with emotional brilliance by Patty Duke as the seven-year-old Helen Keller, and Anne Bancroft as her teacher, Annie Sullivan...
Hollywood is seldom impressed with that sort of miracle-working, and the film version might well have starred, say, Doris Day as Helen's teacher and Rock Hudson as her father, with this little handicapped kid running around bumping into things and jerking tears. So Broadway Producer Fred Coe. Director Arthur Penn and Playwright William Gibson kept the movie rights, formed their own production company, rehired Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke and captured for good what is quite possibly the most moving double performance ever recorded on film...
Along the way, the picture has the same defects the play had. The pure drama at the center is enough to hold fast any audience capable of seeing and hearing, but Writer Gibson nervously includes some fabricated tensions and artificial dramaturgy. There is much shouting, sneering and threatening by Helen Keller's father (Victor Jory) and stepbrother (Andrew Prine). and much bungling by her mother (Inga Swenson). Teacher Sullivan is given a two-week deadline to produce results. The main story is too strong to require that sort of buttressing...