Word: holm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty examination of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm; (TIME...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's witty deflation of some quirks and foibles of the Broadway theater; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Celeste Holm (TIME...
...benefactress, written and played with some recognizable traces of Tallulah Bankhead, is volatile, egocentric and uninhibited, a great stage personality whose bitter anxiety over encroaching middle age blights both her career and her love affair with a younger director (Gary Merrill*). Eve's original well-meaning sponsor (Celeste Holm) is a hapless show-business phenomenon: as the non-professional wife of a successful playwright (Hugh Marlowe), she feels pangs of insecurity at having her husband dangled constantly before beautiful, designing females of the theater...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Blow Ye Winds, with William Holden and Celeste Holm...
...than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming old statesman, Reginald Owen is urbanity itself. But neither play nor production comes to much as a whole...