Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who recall Joan Baez's entrance upon the Cambridge scene late in 1958, her first solo record offers proof that she is moving way out. Just where she will go is not clear, since she is still rather unknown outside of coffee houses, the Gate of Horn, and the Newport Folk Festival. But to those who must listen to folk music, Joan Baez is a welcome combination of robustness of voice, delicacy of expression, and tasteful guitar accompaniment...
...most part closeups, without all the characters being equally real (the mother is not always seen in focus and is played by Angela Lansbury too much for farce). But if there is a want of art to A Taste of Honey, there is equally a want of contrivance, and Joan Plowright's brilliant portrayal of the girl raises the play at its best from gifted 19 to full maturity...
Before she arrived to do the play, American audiences were vaguely familiar with Joan Plowright as the apparent choice to be the next wife of Sir Laurence Olivier. Now they know her as an actress worthy of the part. Daughter of a Lincolnshire newspaper editor, she got her impulse toward the stage from her mother, who as a girl ran away three times to become an actress but "was fetched back three times because it wasn't considered respectable." Joan had her first acting experience with her mother's amateur theatrical group...
...year-old when you're 25"). It was her work in the company that brought her to the attention of Olivier-she was his daughter in The Entertainer, his warmhearted, empty-headed girl last season in Rhinoceros. "Actresses used to be sort of gilded butterflies," says Joan Plowright, "but now we've become a part of life in England...
...condemn the actors, who struck me as a competent lot. Joan DeWeese, as Blanche, acted the final mad scene with aloof dignity. It is Mr. Murray's fault, I think, that she never revealed her sensuality, her nymphomaniacal craving after Stanley Kowalski. Mitch Ryan, as Kowalski, was splendidly grubby, violent, and stupid, but he too never quite seemed the sexually potent animal he should have been. His movements around the stage were sometimes those of a normal human being, sometimes those of an ape, and sometimes those of a wind-up toy on the blink. Mrs. Kowalski, Blanche's sister...