Word: melodrama
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...foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch of a mob of high-class swindlers on the NBC comedy series The Rogues, cultivating yet another generation of fans during the mid-'60s. Her lifelong interest...
...Sons is an excellent play of this type, although it is marred by an excessive reliance on melodrama. Joe Keller is proud of his material success, but unfortunately it is stained with blood. Shadily, he has been acquitted of manufacturing faculty aircraft parts during the war which caused the death of twenty-one pilots, and when the play opens, his partner is in jail, taking the rap for him. Of Joe's two sons, one has been killed in action, and the other, Chris, intends to marry his dead brother's ex-fiance, the convicted partner's daughter. Chris...
...above his suffering by a superhuman effort of will. He becomes a willful hero rather than Solzhenitsyn's enduring stoic. But there is no possible point of departure for his courage and his emotional moments seem merely histrionic. His day becomes a sublime epic pathetically turning into an unsuccessful melodrama...
Currier House--On this end of Garden Street there is some talk of performing scenes of works in progress--primarily for the benefit of actors and playwrights. The drama society also hopes to do Sam Shepherd's Melodrama play sometime this fall, but is having trouble getting it off the ground...
...offers no sanctuary. J. finds temporary solace with a spacy little number named Farm (Karen Black), but the cops are soon on his back again. They want him to help trap the pusher. It is at this point that Born to Win breaks down into arbitrary and rather predictable melodrama. The pusher gets wise to the scheme. He unloads some bad dope on J., but J.'s buddy Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher) shoots it first and dies. Scared, J. wants nothing more to do with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm on a trumped-up charge...