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...Rodgers was greeted by his longtime mate in music, Oscar Hammerstein II. Unobtrusively, they paced the outer fringes of a noisy, cluttered stage, paused beneath a blackboard reading CINDERELLA RUN-THROUGH-FULL CAST. "This is no-script day," said Hammerstein. There were 21 days left to turn the scullery maid of an idea-a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella-into the glittering color spectacular CBS promises to deliver live to the TV audience on Sunday, March 31, from...
...butler, Stan Yassukovich provided a shifty look and a very pleasant voice. The maid he loved was played with sympathy and bounce by Marshall Schwarz. With the help of six enthusiastic "female" servants, Marshall brought the house down, with "I Want to Be a Follies Girl...
Scrambled? In Sydney, Australia, Mrs. Gwendolyne Kelly got a divorce after she told the judge that she returned home early from a vacation, found her husband in bed with a woman who mistook her for the maid, ordered bacon and eggs...
...Nash has a pleasant story to tell. It concerns a brash, fast-talking confidence man who rides into a drought-stricken prairie town and promises to make rain. And he makes rain, too, but not before teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality--but without ever once touching it, because Nash knows when to keep his symbols in the background and let the story speak for itself...
...contrast to Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, who plays the incipient old maid, has been around in starring roles for a long time. However, she has largely been content to rely heavily on a few tricks. For instance, she cries well--first her chin begins to tremble, and then the tears come in a flood. She gives several demonstrations of this somewhat limited achievement in the course of the film. Fortunately, though, the character she portrays is well within her range, and the performance is generally creditable, a fact which may probably be due in part to the restraining influence of director...