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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert tutelage of Director Sidney Lumet, eight captivating young actresses rediscover the Roosevelt era in an irresistible drama based on Mary McCarthy's bitchy, college-bred bestseller about what happened to Vassar's class of '33 after commencement day. Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight and Joanna Pettet are the most active alumnae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Mar. 18, 1966 | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

More than anything, unshakable performances keep The Group going strong. As the bride Kay, who ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Girls | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...principal roles, United Artists has rounded up a prize bouquet of star lets, including Edgar Bergen's daughter Candice (U. of Penn '67); talented, TV-trained Joan Hackett; and Poor Rich ard's Joanna Pettet, 21, a bright new face of the past Broadway season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Daisy Chain | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Home Free!, by Lanford Wilson. A poignant fairy-tale quality pervades this story of a brother and his incestuously pregnant sister and helps the play achieve an astonishingly tender tension between sickness and sweetness. The boy (Michael Warren Powell) and girl (Joanna Miles) live in a fantasy playroom of imaginary companions and real toys, such as a miniature Ferris wheel. The atmosphere has a suffocating intimacy, an airless immunity to reality that recalls Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, with its similarly incestuous relationship. Reality finally intrudes with cruel pathos as the girl's birth pangs become her death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Trouble with Inbreeding | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...Oakes, 55, one of the New York Times's Ochs (Oakes) clan, who founded in 1947 an idealistic but ill-fated London weekly (American Outlook), later wrote a series of successful walking-tour guides to Europe; from injuries suffered in an auto accident that also killed his wife, Joanna, 49, and only son James, 17; near Brattleboro, Vt., when James, who was driving, lost control on an icy road as the family was returning to the Choate School from a precollege interview at Dartmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 15, 1965 | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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