Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching a more or less fully clothed couple cavort around a large bed for upwards of two hours has never been my idea of fully satisfying evening, but Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn manage to turn this rather barren situation into an enjoyable comedy in The Fourposter. In fact Miss Tandy and Mr. Cronyn are so engaging that one forgets they are involved in what is commonly called "a theatrical tour de force"; aside from the dominantly large fourposter bed which occupies most of the set there is nothing else which remotely resembles a dramatics personae...
...work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children, William Pettus Jr., 20, and Jessica...
...their casts they boasted William Devlin, Margare Webster, Eva LeGallience, John Carradine, Helmut Dantine, Philip Borneuf, Ruth Ford, Nancy Walker, Sarah Allgood, Betty Field, Claire Luce, Jessica Tandy, Hume Gronyn and many more. Sometimes their personalities clashed with those of the stars. In one play, Luise Rainer threw a glass of water at Bryant Haliday. Later, she told him "If I had six months I could teach you to make love." Yet often Brattle and its guests would get along quite well. The late Sarah Allgood stayed up all night with the cast, guzzling gin and singing Irish ballads...
They did bring two of their own productions to New York. The first was The Little Blue Light with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandey; the other The Relapse, a Restoration comedy, sponsored by the Theatre Guild. These should have given the Brattle prestige to attract angels and revenue to pay the debts. But the inexperienced Brattle businessmen found they had signed contracts for certain properties and had forfeited play rights to such an extent that the profit disappeared and they left New York with little more than they had brought in. Moreover, the prestige they won did not draw...
...Still running on Broadway with Burgess Meredith and Betty Field, who succeeded Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy...