Word: kiley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUTH (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Music Man Robert Preston tours South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, and Richard Kiley and Joan Fontaine read excerpts from the love letters of Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel...
...CORA S. KILEY...
...most imaginative musical betrays the play's sentimentality but boasts a tuneful if obvious score by Mitch Leigh, who has composed everything from opera to TV commercials. Joan Diener exaggerates her trollop's complaints as she screeches "One pair of arms is like another," but Richard Kiley as Don Quixote does well by The Impossible Dream and Dulcinea...
...knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream...
...Quixote-Cervantes, Richard Kiley is at least as good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...