Word: kittenishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...wide-awake P.T.A. mothers, from Larchmont to Santa Monica, would be appalled by the situation at Montigny. The district superintendent of schools not only sleeps with the women teachers but pinches the girl students while inviting them up to see his etchings; the headmistress is a Lesbian; her kittenish assistant indiscriminately chases both sexes; one of the male teachers writes love sonnets to a pretty 15-year...
Married. Peggy Ann Garner, 24, kittenish cinemingénue (Black Widow), onetime child star (Junior Miss); and Albert Salmi, 28, Broadway actor (End As a Man, Bus Stop); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Televiewers had a chance last week to let the networks know what they wanted in dramatic shows. NBC's Producers Showcase presented Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the ennuied Caesar and Claire Bloom as a kittenish Cleopatra with the claws of a full-grown tiger. Even the supporting roles were graced by top-notchers-Judith Anderson, Cyril Ritchard, Jack Hawkins and Farley Granger. For producer, NBC turned to Anthony Quayle. who had just starred in Marlowe's Tamburlaine on Broadway. Though compressed into 90 minutes, the Shavian comedy kept the refreshing...
Desirable Dames. What Bride's viewers see is a mishmash of kittenish domestic humor. Spring Byington lives with her daughter and son-in-law (Frances Rafferty and Dean Miller); a next-door neighbor, Pete Porter, adds a welcome touch of acid as a wisecracking foe of mothers-in-law, and Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed...