Word: krasna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though not yet in rehearsal, Joshua Logan's production of Norman Krasna's Kind Sir is tabbed as a likely hit on the strength of its costars, Mary Martin and Charles Boyer. A comedy-romance about an actress and a State Department official, Kind Sir is due on Broadway in December, is already sold out to theater parties for the first three months...
...accepted cinema statutes, the hero should get the girl. In every third and a half scene, the moviegoer settles back and breaths, "Ah, now he gets the girl." But, faced with the alternatives of following form or preserving the sanctity of marriage, producers Wald and Krasna chose the latter. The girl married the heavy before the picture begins...
Despite the "real thing" riders used, Wald and Krasna could not quite capture the behind the stables aroma of the rodeo. The broken down has beens who follow the circuit wistfully and drunkenly, the all night gambling and drinking that goes on to help men forget the fear, the slickers who weaken ropes and slice cinches for half a man's day money, the camp followers, the clowns with enough courage to compete but not enough talent--all these might have bolstered the story, had they been used...
...Lusty Men (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a cowboy picture without rustlers or a sheriff. Its subject is the modern cowpoke who makes a handsome but hazardous living being kicked by broncos and gored by steers on the rodeo circuit. The picture has some rousing scenes of rough-riding thrills & spills photographed at the Pendleton, Tucson, Livermore, Cheyenne and Spokane rodeos, but the story that runs through these sequences soon develops a limp...
Clash by Night (Wald-Krasna; RKO Radio) is a vapid variation on the old triangle. Based on Clifford Odets' 1941 play about a Staten Island husband who kills his wife's lover, the picture adds a sunshiny ending, a Pacific-coast fishing-town setting, and some fishy dramatics...