Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Fourposter, starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy...
...Honeys (by Roald Dahl) tells of despotic, irascible twin brothers (both played by Hume Cronyn) married to pleasant, long-suffering wives. It then tells how the wives (Jessica Tandy and Dorothy Stickney) decide that it would greatly improve matters if they disposed of their husbands. Disposing of them requires a stalled elevator, tainted oyster juice, a skull-bopping with a frozen leg of lamb, and a medicinal drink containing tiger's whiskers; but the ladies are very happily widowed...
...Jessica Tandy, as the submissive and then rebellious wife of crusty Bennett Honey, seems somewhat less diabolical than she should be. Miss Tandy is just too charming. Her attractiveness works against her, asserting itself throughout the evening and deadening the emotional explosion that should occur when she suddenly walks out on her husband. But Frances Woodbury, who substituted for Dorothy Stickney last Saturday as the wife of Curtis Honey, is delightfully Addamsian. Behind everything she says-even the tune she whistles-lurks the desire to eliminate her crochety old husband and enjoy a subsequent life of freedom and wealth...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Victor Borge, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn...
Worst of all, in many a moviemaker's mind, is Brando's habit of teasing Hollywood's sacred cows, the gossip columnists. Actress Jessica Tandy once went to Marlon's dressing room with a powerful woman who, as everybody in the entertainment business knows, likes to think of herself as still quite youthful-looking. Said Marlon to Jessica in his silkiest tone: "Ah, this must be your mother." Columnist Hedda Hopper also went to interview him. "She talked for half an hour solid," says a Hollywood reporter, "and in all that time Marlon gave exactly...