Word: hypochondriac
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...young surgeon's advice. Then it was too late. No psychiatrist could turn back the clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became a hopeless hypochondriac, obsessed with her mentally tangled intestines, incurably ill with what the late great Sir William Osier, who was not given to psychiatric terminology, called "bowels on the brain...
Boyer is also a great hypochondriac. During most of the first tour, he kept constant check on his temperature with two thermometers. Sometimes he even sneaked one on stage, concealed it behind his hand and took his temperature between lines. Once, Agnes Moorehead threw him a sudden, unexpected cue, and Boyer had to sputter the thermometer out of his mouth before returning to his role of the Great Lover...
...axiom that there are three sides to every story, Nina has the husband decide in the first act to kill the lover, in the next act to kill the wife, in the last act to kill himself. The husband is much the most rewarding member of the trio-a hypochondriac who sneezes just when he intends to shoot, a red-nosed reindeer with, deep down in him, a bit of the wolf. British Actor Alan (The Winslow Boy) Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows...
...scenario is out-dated, of course. One revolting scene shows the Goldwyn girls, dressed as WAC's, boarding a troop ship while a band in the background plays a marching song, rousing variety. But most of the way, this story of a hypochondriac in the Army is skillfully handled, from script-writer to Danny Kaye...
Sure enough, the troubles of both girls trace straight back to their parents. Mother Reynolds is a hysterical hypochondriac who alternates between self-pity and a sense of guilt about being an inadequate mother. Father Reynolds, reluctant to admit middle age, fumes because his wife no longer understands him. In their own subconscious reactions to the family tensions, the girls go off on rocky tangents: Marjorie into a vapid affair with a college boy, Sally into a dash to New York after her father shocks her with an ardent...