Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead...
...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...
...Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure by way of poison. She sees a beautiful nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face...
...Most Manhattan streets come to a dead end at the East River. This, and the fact that often on Manhattan's East Side only a course of masonry separates the triplex apartments of the rich from the cold-water flats of the poor, were about all Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) needed to write one of the most successful plays of the 1935 Broadway season. A large measure of its success was due to Norman Bel Geddes' superrealistic set and to the children Messrs. Geddes & Kingsley cast as the gang which contributed most of the noise...
...single set Designer Geddes squeezed into the little old Belasco Theatre stage, but Playwright Lillian Hellman's (The Children's Hour) cinema version enlarges the play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes...