Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make Mine Manhattan. Gay, witty revue which, while pretending to laugh at Manhattan Island, makes violent love to it (TIME...
Goodbye, My Fancy (by Fay Kanin; produced by Michael Kanin in association with Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) tells of a glamorous, liberal-thinking Congresswoman named Agatha Reed (Madeleine Carroll), who, 20 years after being expelled from college, goes back for an honorary degree. The young professor for love of whom she had been expelled is now the college president (Conrad Nagel). He and Agatha discover that they still love each other, and decide to marry...
...finds, has changed; he is principally concerned with pleasing trustees and avoiding trouble. She has brought trouble along with her, in the shape of an anti-war propaganda film that the trustees refuse to have shown. Egged on by a cocky LIFE photographer (Sam Wanamaker) who is also in love with her, Agatha bludgeons-in fact, blackmails-her fiance into letting the film be shown. He wins out over the trustees, but for all that, loses the lady...
...often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...
...sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with the dregs of an elementally corrupted nature, and thousands upon thousands of souls are destroyed by vice and misery and degradation, obliterated, wiped out, washed from the register of the living, dehumanized...