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...Seven Year Itch (by George Axelrod) bagged a batch of fine reviews on opening night. It possesses a lively popular theme. It is full of humorous, situations. It boasts an engaging leading man. What it lacks, unfortunately, is any real merit as a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs, Ill. But a pastor's life seemed an unexciting routine of baptisms, marriages, fund-raisings and funerals. Billy had an itch for new places and new faces; the vineyard he needed was a national hookup, not a village church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Seven Year Itch found the rainbow somewhere. Elliott Nugent and Courtney Burr tossed together some foul gags and spicy acting and came out with an unexplicably funny production, now at the Wilbur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Year Itch | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

Although The Seven Year Itch is a successfully amusing comedy, it achieves this effect despite a good deal of repetitious dialogue and too many unsatisfactory performances. It's thus dismaying to find Elliott Nugent's name listed as production supervisor, since he has turned out far better products than this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Seven Year Itch | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...James Joyce's Molly Bloom) but very much herself as well: a maddeningly complaisant, maddeningly wise, maddeningly female creature. The second volume is the record of Tom Wilcher, one of Sara's employers and lovers, an uncomfortable, comfortably off lawyer with a lust for life and an itch for salvation. The last word, The Horse's Mouth, is Gulley Jimson's, a rascally painter, an immoral man of character. Jimson is the only one who has ever been a real match for Sara: at times, in his roaring picaresque progress downhill, he seems an even bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheerful Protestant | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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