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...Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott. Abbott has willing and extremely winning helpers. As Ford's wife, constant listener, chief cook and sole housekeeper, Maureen O'Sullivan pedals from chore to chore on an imaginary bicycle. As a kind of fledgling adult who married the boss's daughter, works for the boss's lumber company and lives in the boss's house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second...
...unbelievable when you think very hard about it), but he is a man of enough professional acumen to have signed up one of the best directors in the business, George Abbott, who for his part has had enough sense to sin up a perfect cast: Paul Ford (dad), Maureen O'Sullivan (mom), and Orson Bean (son-in-law). Do you follow...
...then, of course, in Never Late the stomach has all the lines. Maureen O'Sullivan and Orson Bean are the co-stars--lest one forget--and no mean comics they; but their only function in this play is to feed the laughs to Ford. Ford knows what to do with them, all right. Aren't you pleased? he is asked. "Oh, I'm joyous; [pause] it's just I'm so miserable...
Gypsy Cop Cars. Three police roles are the regular substance of the cast (Paul Burke, Horace MacMahon, Harry Bellaver). But the best evidence that Naked City is not just another cop show is its list of guest stars, which has included Eli Wallach, Lee J. Cobb. Maureen Stapleton, Eric Portman, Hume Cronyn, George...
Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Maureen ("You Tarzan, me Jane") O'Sullivan in a pre-Broadway showing of Cradle and All, a comedy about a couple having their first baby after 27 years of marriage...