Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourposter--Only two characters--Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy--in this one, but they make up in quality what they lack in quantity. At the Plymouth...
...actors involved in this production are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, man and wife on and off the stage, and it is largely through their work that this play achieves its effectiveness. For them, the author, Jan de Hertog, has fashioned an amusing vehicle that wanders aimlessly through the years, catching the couple on their wedding night and following them to what appears to be old age, 35 years later...
...tormented heroine's brutish brother-in-law, Kim Hunter as her well-balanced sister and Karl Maiden as her mama's-boy suitor. Even in casting Vivien Leigh in the leading role, thus brightening the marquee with a star more familiar to moviegoers than Broadway's Jessica Tandy, Director Kazan has chosen an actress who grew into the part in the London production of the play...
...part-time pen-in-hand set was busy churning out autobiographies. Sculptor Jo Davidson promised a limited edition of 74 signed copies at $50 each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...
...thrust upon them by a plot gimmick, as if it were fate. Strangers on a plane that stops in Naples for repairs, they miss its departure while sightseeing. The plane crashes. Listed as dead, they are free to make a new life far from Cotten's wife (Jessica Tandy) and son. For a while, until the past (and the Production Code) catches up with the lovers, life becomes an idyl in a palazzo. Renunciation finally comes not so much from themselves as from the prodding of other characters...