Word: landey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatrical company, Dean Gitter, Gretchen Kanne, and Wendell Clark delineate three phonies without ever a phony stroke in their performances. Mr. Gitter's role is more extensively characterized than the others, and he brings to it the right sort of pudgy excitability and pseudo-suavity. Ray Reinhardt, Dora Landey, Richard Mathews, and Helen England are the most prominent of the Characters, and they handle their long, passionate speeches with conviction. Mr. Reinhardt's and Miss Landey's roles especially are searching tests in emotional acting. They pass, as it were, with honors...
...tone, revolving around a scene where a man's long-lost wife (Miss England) bursts in and stops him from fornicating with a prostitute, because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality...