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...Fugitive Kind. The screen version of Playwright Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending has a kind of nauseating beauty, luridly reworking the myth of Orpheus in a dirty little town in Mississippi. With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Tory...
...months ago, Star France Nuyen, who played Suzie on Broadway (TIME, Oct. 27, 1958), broke out in a rash of symptoms (ranging from a chronic sore throat to a heart bleeding for Marlon Brando and a pain in the neck for the producer) and was dropped from the cast. At that point, Producer Ray Stark called Nancy in Toronto, where she was understudying a road-show Suzie, ordered her onto the first plane for London. "Tell the stage manager your father's had a heart attack," said Stark. "You're an actress. Go in there...
...Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named Marlon Brando Cavalcanti and who worries about radioactive fallout, a Scotland Yard inspector named Overboard, and a Russian who stands on his head. And then there is an "ambassador from the audience" who sits onstage and asks for encores of certain attractive bits of business, notably the thunder sound effects...
...prowls the auditorium calling out sudden changes in the script. He carves the air with the sweeping gestures of an orchestra conductor, comes to roost like a stork, one leg cocked, on the rail of the pit. "Give it music." he may order an actor, or "Give it a Marlon Brando mumble...
Although the plot is wearing, the acting is not. With one possible exception, the cast makes the most of the script. The wife, Jeanne Moreau, considering her scanty dialogue, performs remarkably well. Her lover, Jean-Marc Bory, though hampered by the false assumption that he is Marlon Brando, turns in a credible performance, and the heroine's girl friend, played by Judith Magre, is a brilliant caricature of the fashionable Parisienne...