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...play, "The Rat Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this new play lacks the swift elip of humor of "Born Yesterday," and the story it tells is as sentimental and implausible as that of "Anna Lucasta...
...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...
...Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth; Garson Kanin's The Rat Race...
...Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...
Conventional M-G-M also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...