Word: mcclintics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...
After a dreary series of revivals, summer stock and out-of-town closings, McClintic gave him a role in a 1942 Broadway show, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star. The show soon folded, but the critics had some nice things to say about a new juvenile named Gregory Peck...
...there is little sprawl and no congestion, and things turn dull only where Shakespeare himself has let history nose out drama. Moreover, under Guthrie McClintic's perceptive direction, this Antony and Cleopatra properly brims over with worldliness, cynical wit, self-seeking and double-dealing...
...play is neither a translation of the original nor well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...
...Touched Me! (by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham; "suggested" by D. H. Lawrence's short story; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is dubbed a "romantic comedy." Few romantic comedies have either soared with so much message or stooped to so many monkeyshines...