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WINSOME, The Wrongway Inn is not. Although the show is a bit too long episodic, director-choreographer Voight Kempson has injected a good deal of energy and brought off some splendid dance routines. The second-act kickline ("The Don't Tread-on-Me-Blues"--composer Stephen Sondheim seem's to have been the evening's guiding light) is a harlequin-outfitted Busby Berkely spectacular which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated...
...washed her own hair in midafternoon, then summoned Beverly Hills Coiffeur Carrie White for a comb-out and had her add a cascading fall for greater thickness. The whole business took all of ten minutes. Lynn, meanwhile, puffed up her own do as well as Mum's (Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave...
...Michael Redgrave, 58, is a tragedian who ranks only a little lower in English estimation than Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier. Lady Redgrave, who plays as Rachel Kempson, is accounted a superb supporting actress. And over the last year a new generation of Redgraves, who might well be known as "Michael's bloody marvels," has spangled the marquees with a retina-rocking glitter of new talent. Corin, 27, played his first big part (Sir Thomas More's son-in-law) in a big picture (A Man for All Seasons) and charmed the critics with a witty portrait...
Wearing the crown seems perfectly appropriate for Vanessa; she is a member of the royal family of the English theater. Her father is Sir Michael Redgrave; Lady Redgrave is Actress Rachel Kempson. Her sister and brother are players, as was her grandfather and his father before him. On the night she was born, her career was chosen by Laurence Olivier, who was playing Hamlet to her father's Laertes. Prophesied Olivier in a curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a lovely new actress has been born. Laertes has a daughter...
...film's star (Michael Redgrave) is something more special: a Czech who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp, and is hiding under the identity of a dead English officer, whose wife (Rachel Kempson) he falls in love with by correspondence. The picture patiently tells the story of all these men-and a few others-from the time of their capture by the Germans in June 1940 to the hour of their release...