Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult for even the best comedians to wrestle with such tired stuff as this. The authors--Garson Kanin, who wrote "Rat Race" and "Born Yesterday," and his wife Ruth Gordon--lacked their usual light touch on this...
...story, fashioned by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon: a frowsy blonde (Judy Holliday) trails her husband (Tom Ewell) to his girl friend's apartment and shoots him, but not fatally. The rest of the movie follows the trial of the assault case in court. Attorney Tracy is defending a husband's right to philander; Attorney Hepburn is fighting for a woman's right to shoot an adulterous husband...
...Kanin has been very fortunate in the actors he has obtained for the roles of Helen Brown and Gus Hammer, the saxophone player. Betty Field has the part of the embittered young "model," as she calls herself, and she is wonderful in the part. Miss Field is unexcelled in the business of naturalistic acting and no matter how tough she talks she is still the substance of feminity. Barry Nelson as Gus Hammer, is also very good, with his half-articulate gestures, his rocking stance, and his fresh enthusiasm...
...Race" has some very humorous parts in it, mostly because Garson Kanin can get a little more vulgar than anyone else and still be funny. But the vulgarity of his people isn't genuine and consequently they aren't either...
...given his set four walls, one of which raises and lowers many times during the evening with all the unobtrusiveness and grace of a freight elevator. Like three or four of the characters, the fourth wall should be done away with. Give the audience a little credit, M. Kanin, Mr. Oenslager...