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...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...Lillian Hellman, gathers up a Jewish family of toadstools to prove that modern U.S. life is poisonous. In this emetic comedy, Playwright Hellman retches over psychoanalysts, alcoholics, beatniks, sentimental Negrophiles, romanticizers of the American Indian, epicene writers, slick shysters who run homes for the aged, the eel-spined younger generation, the middle-aged materialistic middle class, the hot-and-cold war-babied economy, the affluent society, and-horror of horrors-store-bought bread. This catalogue of latter-day evils presumably calls for the wrath of Jeremiah. Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman only manages to turn bile into bilgewater...
...Hollywood's newest bit of fancy, the stuff seems genuine enough. So is her new-found stardom. At 21, with only eight films to her credit, Miss Mimieux (pronounced Mee-mee-yer) captured the plum part of the rich, put-upon child-bride in the screen version of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic, for which she receives top billing, right along with Geraldine Page and Dean Martin. Considering the fact that just three years ago she was playing Weena, the forward-thinking girl in a science-fiction fantasy, The Time Machine-and that only her role...
...lack the quality of the silent films, Miss Gish believes, because the enormous costs have destroyed the strong community feelings that existed among the people who made old-time movies. In the '20's, actors and crewmen could always make suggestions to directors, and often these suggestions were used. "Lillian and I made our own costumes for Orphans, and Griffith or Billy Bitzer [Griffith's favorite cameraman] would always listen to our ideas." With today's high-budget films, each day of shooting costs upwards of $5000. There is not time to have such consultations, and the proliferation of techniques...
...Lillian Hellman believes that accurate criticism is kinder than false praise, and her treatment of middle-class Jews is the kindest to head for Broadway in a long time...