Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rather florid drama is written with considerable Broadway sleekness by Garson Kanin and his wife, Actress Ruth Gordon, and is appropriately directed by George Cukor. It offers Signe Hasso her best chance to date to prove that her beauty and talent deserve better roles than she usually gets; Newcomer Shelley Winters makes a sure hit as a waitress...
...Play: Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday...
Billie Dawn is apt to endure as the theater's best Dumb Broad. Garson Kanin did it in spite of her Brooklyn accent...
...Kanin's heroine makes rapid strides toward a whisking acquaintance with basic politics and basic poise. From first-act faux pas (greeting a dowager: "wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
Born Yesterday--At the Wilbur. A road company of the Garson Kanin New York hit, satisfactorily acted and every bit as funny as it always has been. It's no dramatic achievement, but it makes a very entertaining evening in the theatre...