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...Children's Hour--Lillian Hellman tells a strange story. At the BU THEATRE, Comm...
...Children's Hour--Lillian Hellman tells a strange story. At the BU THEATRE, Comm...
...Harvard Summer School will open its Tuesday Evening Literary Series with Lillian Hellman, American playwright, in an informal dialogue with professor Daniel Seltzer followed by questions from the audience. Tuesday, July 9, Emerson Hall...
...Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend in 1945, he deleted all the book's references to the hero...
...depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted out of an old Lillian Hellman play; and the final speeches have a tacked-on and tatty Odets-like quality...