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Divorced. Lillian Roth, 52, Broadway singer and sometime alcoholic who wrote a bestseller about it (I'll Cry Tomorrow); and Thomas Burt McGuire, 49, her fifth husband; each sued the other (he accused her of violence and intemperance, she said he fathered an illegitimate child); after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Phoenix...
Toys in the Attic. Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin try to breathe life into Lillian Hellman's play, but the story about Dixie spinsters who indulge in a bit of brother-smothering is about as believable as Southern-fried matzo balls...
Toys in the Attic. Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin try to breathe life into Lillian Hellman's play, but the story about Dixie spinsters who indulge in a bit of brother-smothering is about as believable as Southern-fried matzo balls...
Toys in the Attic. Lillian Hellman's story about two Southern spinsters and their younger brother is the same tangle of tormented sibling relationships it was on the stage in 1960 and just as lacking in life, though Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin try valiantly to give it spark...
Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman is like a small, scared Racine. Her lines flip into the mind like well-aimed darts. Her scenes stack like well-designed dishes. Unhappily, there is seldom much nourishment in them. Hellman speaks her mind brilliantly but opens her heart rarely. When the moment requires feeling, she too often offers irony; when the theme invites tragedy, she resorts to melodrama; when the problem demands experiment, she is careful to be commercial. She is exciting but not moving. She writes superbly about sex but badly about love. She creates grand characters but not real...